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• Butterflies program highlights 2012: Update from Jo Sander, adult research team member, Minnesota

  
  Here is a link to a video Jo Sander's team made on their research. A great recap of their summer, this video also shows how animoto can be used to show D2D groups' progress:

  http://animoto.com/play/mNlvzkZry39xbvvAh2UPDQ?utm_content=main_link

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• Update from Michael G., youth research team member, Ohio

  
  Hi! It's Michael G., and I just wanted to say that I have made a video on my caterpillars I am taking care of here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMs9U7Cjs_U&feature=plcp.

  I also found out that the tubercles on a cecropia moth caterpillar are orange and red depending on when they are going to molt, red being very close to molting.

  That's all!

• Update from Anne Stevenson, project team member, University of Minnesota

  Here is a link to an article about a butterfly class Terri Haynes led for Anoka County 4-H in Minnesota: http://abcnewspapers.com/2012/06/29/anoka-county-4-hers-explore-the-butterfly/.

  Research team members Isabelle and Katie also helped teach and work with the kids in this class of about12-15 kids! They used the monarch board game the group created last year, and shared their research displays with this group also.

• Update from Kristina McCullough, adult research team member, The Renaissance Academy, Powhatan, Virginia

  Project Aviary (our team name) hosted a wildlife rehabilitator who brought in a variety of education birds to help us learn more about our study animals. In appreciation of that we conducted a supply and fund drive in support of their program. I thought it might be helpful to other teams to have a pre-built flyer if they wanted to do the same. (I hate reinventing the wheel!) It's attached here.

• Update from Gerri Fitzloff, adult research team member, Stewart, Minnesota

  This last week we found some tussock moth larvae. The girls were really interested in learning all about these critters and why there were so many this year--and we had never noticed them the last two years. I think some of them may even do a project on them. We also found this toad a few weeks ago...

  

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Dispatch from the Rochester D2D club:

The D2D monarch club in Rochester has just begun meeting. We are part of the summer camp programming at Quarry Hill Nature Center and will meet M-F mornings 9 - 11:30 a.m. for two consecutive weeks. After three meetings we have learned to identify four different kinds of milkweed and monitored for monarchs in two different locations (total findings = 2 first instars and 1 egg). We are raising about 15 monarchs in our meeting place and yesterday had the amazing fortune of observing two caterpillars as they changed from "Js" into pupae. The kids and I were amazed! How does that big caterpillar fit in that tiny pupa? How did it make the green casing? How gross/amazing is that pile of molted skin? Tomorrow we will attempt our first mini-inquiry. I think we'll invent a question we can answer by looking at data in the MLMP website since the kids were really into the data we looked at today. I also want to be sure to save time for a fun game as we've been all-business so far.

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