Last fall second graders in Cheryl Willis’s and Yolanda Carter’s class at Stringfellow Elementary School joined students and scientists across North America to track the monarch butterfly’s migration to sanctuaries in Central Mexico. This spring the class received symbolic monarch butterflies from students in states and countries along the migration route.

MOULTRIE, Ga. — Last fall second graders in Cheryl Willis’s and Yolanda Carter’s class at Stringfellow Elementary School joined students and scientists across North America to track the monarch butterfly’s migration to sanctuaries in Central Mexico. This spring the class received symbolic monarch butterflies from students in states and countries along the migration route.

The symbolic butterflies serve as ambassadors that represent shared interests and common conservation goals. One symbolic butterfly came from Germany, although that country is not on the monarchs’ migration route.