Registration is required for classrooms and groups. 

Cost: $20 registration fee is underwritten by Bee City USA-Asheville.

The annual international Symbolic Monarch Migration education program mimics the monarchs’ journey by engaging more than 10,000 children from across the United States and Canada in creating paper butterflies to send to students in Mexico. As the real-life monarchs arrive in Mexico for the winter, the symbolic paper butterflies will also be delivered to schools surrounding the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve. Sometime in spring after the living monarchs’ departure from Mexico, groups of paper butterflies will also return north, carrying special messages from the students in Mexico. United by the monarch butterfly, children across North America learn authentic lessons of conservation and cooperation.

As funding allows, classrooms (public, private, charter…) with up to 30 participants in Asheville and Buncombe County are invited to participate in the 30th annual Symbolic Monarch Migration education program. Teachers may enroll more than one classroom. Interested homeschoolers should contact info@beecityasheville.org to discuss opportunities for homeschool groups to participate.

Bee City USA-Asheville is grateful to the Lipscomb Family Foundation for funding our participation in the Symbolic Monarch Migration.

October 10 is the last day Bee City USA-Asheville will accept registrations and pay the $20 registration fee.