BETTER WORLD-   More than 700 virtual monarch butterflies are being released this weekend to celebrate Monarch Migration Weekend.  The butterflies will be migrating across 7 sims to the Mexico sim.

In real life, people catch these butterflies very carefully in order to tag and study them.  Lucky SL residents who catch a monarch butterfly may receive a special edition of Ode butterfly jewelry, created by Random Calliope.  Calliope is a creator of wearable art and has been creating pieces for three years.  Ode is an 8 piece jewelry set (hair piece, earrings, necklace, pendant, brooch, bracelet, ring) which at this moment has 22 color variations. The challenge is to complete full sets of one color for your Ode butterfly collection.

The migration schedule is:

Saturday, May 17:
Ars Simulacra, 7 am SLT: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Ars%20Simulacra/128/128/0
Biome,  Noon SLT: http://slurl.com/secondlife/BIOME/128/128/0

Shengri La, 6 pm SLT with dance following at 7 pm: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Shengri%20La/128/128/0

Sunday, May 18:
Commonwealth, 8 am SLT: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Commonwealth%20Island/27/244/22
La Reve, 1 pm SLT:
Mexico Ruta Maya, 5 pm SLT: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Visit%20Mexico%202/205/117/34

PRMantis Berman will be available at many of the sites answering questions about the real monarch butterfly migration.   Monarchs are often said to be bitter to birds and can be mildly toxic to humans.  The milkweed is a host plant for feeding the monarch larvae.  

“All of the monarchs east of the Rockies are in one small place for one long