Question

why did ebright start a project of tagging the butterflies
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Answer 1

Answer:

Ebright started tagging monarch butterflies. ... So he decided to raise a flock of butterflies. He would catch a female monarch and take her eggs. He would raise them in his basement from egg to caterpillar to pupa to adult butterfly.

Answer 2

Answer:

Ebright used to collect different species of butterflies. He had collected all the species of butterflies found in that area. He read the book ‘The Travels of Monarch X’. At the end of the book, the readers were asked to help study butterflies’ migration. So, Ebright started tagging the butterflies.