Photos: Farnsworth Middle School releases the Monarchs
Last Friday, the students at Farnsworth Middle School in Guilderland released the butterflies that they raised from eggs into freedom. The Monarch butterflies will be migrating to Mexico.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Many tongues: Guilderland students who speak a variety of languages from far-flung parts of the world display posters with the word the “butterfly” written in their native language, from Hindi to Mandarin Chinese before the release of butterflies at Guilderland’s Farnsworth Middle School on Friday.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Adiós mariposa: Farnsworth Middle School Spanish teacher Jill Dugan reads in Spanish to students who have raised, and are set to release, monarch butterflies. At the end of summer, monarchs from eastern North America migrate to Mexico.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Blowing a kiss: Farnsworth Middle School student Bailey Yeardon gives this cabbage white butterfly a little push off her finger to fly away to the open air after being released Friday at the middle school during the last day of the butterfly garden, which had welcomed visitors all summer.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
One last snap: A little girl, in back, takes a picture of the Monarch and Cabbage White butterflies get released by one of the middle school students holding a mesh net outside Farnsworth Middle School last Friday.
The Enterprise — Michael Koff
Fingertip friend: Not wanting to leave on its migration to Mexico just yet, this monarch butterfly holds onto a Farnsworth Middle School student last Friday morning.