Migrating Woes

I find this time of the year very difficult, especially while out driving. It's not just saying good-bye to all of our end-of-the-year butterflies, either, although releasing the last Monarch certainly does make me than a little misty-eyed.

What I find most upsetting is watching Monarchs heading for Mexico, trying to cross busy roads and highways, only to get sucked back into traffic--and danger. One year as we drove from New Jersey to Illinois in late August, I tearfully counted hundreds of Monarchs we saw struggling to cross over I-90. --LKR