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16 World and Press | November 2 2021 Debbie Kostolansky in her butterfly garden. | Photo: Jose M. Osorio/Chicago Tribune/TNS ‘What are the chances?’ BUTTERFLIES A suburban Chicago woman’s home-raised monarch butterfly makes it to central Mexico, 2,000 miles away. By Nara Schoenberg 1 AN ORLAND PARK, Illinois, woman who raises butterflies in her home hit the monarch migration jackpot: A tiny tag affixed to one of her 2020 butterflies was recovered in the mountainous region of central Mexico where Midwestern migratory monarchs spend the winter. The female butterfly, listed as ACBM486, flew about 2,000 miles from Orland Park, in suburban Chicago, to the El Rosario nature reserve near Ocampo. 2 “I was super, super excited,” said Debbie Kostolansky, 62, who grows butterfly and hummingbird gardens, and has raised monarchs for five years. “I just kind of felt like I did something good.” 3 The monarch population has been in decline in the last 20 years, spurring conservation efforts, including large-scale tagging with tiny stickers. The nonprofit Monarch Watch education and research program, which provides stickers and compiles lists of those recovered, puts the odds of having a tag turn up in Mexico at about 1 in 100. … 4 Kostolansky, who works at a garden center, planted milkweed for monarchs before she started raising the butterflies in a mesh enclosure. She doesn’t raise more than 30 at a time, in keeping with experts’ warnings that raising large numbers can expose monarchs to health risks such as parasite transmission. She gathers eggs she finds on milkweed solution plants, picks fresh milkweed for the caterpillars to eat, cleans her monarch enclosure twice a day, and transfers her caterpillars to an outdoor enclosure during the day, in the hope that they will benefit from exposure to natural conditions. 5 Kostolansky had been checking whether her monarchs had made it to Mexico for months when, one night in mid-August, she briefly checked her phone for news and the weather. A quick glance at Facebook revealed that a woman in Minnesota had found one of her monarchs on the Monarch Watch list of butterflies that had made it to Mexico in 2020. 6 “Oh, let me just check the list,” Kostolansky said to herself. “What are the chances?” She went down the Monarch Watch list, and the first four letters of her 2020 tags were there: ACBM. ACBM was followed by a familiarsounding number, 486. She went to her own list of 2020 monarchs, and sure enough, ACBM486 was there. 7 Most monarchs live for two to six weeks, but late summer and early fall bring a super-generation that migrates to Mexico or California. The migratory monarchs can live eight or nine months. … © 2021 Chicago Tribune. Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC. 0 – 1 SUBURBAN “s´"b‰…b´n‘ vorstädtisch — monarch butterfly “"mÅn´k‘ Monarchfalter — migration Zug; Wanderung; s.w.u. migratory “"maIgr´t´ri‘ — tag Schild — affixed befestigt — to recover wiederfinden — nature reserve Naturschutzgebiet 2 – 3 hummingbird Kolibri — to spur “sp‰…‘ anstoßen — effort h.: Projekt — large-scale umfangreich — to compile zus.stellen — odds Chancen 4 – 7 milkweed Seidenpflanze — mesh enclosure Netzkäfig — to expose s.o. to s.th. jdn. etw. aussetzen; s.w.u. exposure to Kontakt mit — parasite transmission “"pœr´saIt‘ Parasitenbefall — caterpillar “"kœt´pIl´‘ Raupe — to benefit from “"benIfIt‘ profitieren von Page 15 | Across 4 FORMIDABLE • 6 SLEUTH • 8 COMPASSIONATE • 13 INOPERABLE • 16 CONTAMINATE • 17 TROUGH • 18 GHASTLY • 19 OVERLOOK Down 1 DEVASTATING • 2 SHOWCASE • 3 SUBCONSCIOUSLY • 5 MASCULINITY • 7 PENCHANT • 8 CUMULATIVE • 9 ADDITIVE • 10 GORGE • 11 UNWITTING • 12 DEVOTEE • 14 PREMATURE • 15 BELOVED Die nächste Ausgabe erscheint am 27. November 2021. Kein Plan nach dem Abi? (1) A climate summit is … The Washington Post; 15.10.2021 (2) We all like to … The Times; 12.08.2021 (3) Does the European Union … The Washington Post; 03.09.2021 (4) The U.S. delves into the … Los Angeles Times; 29.08.2021 (5) How this Texas town … The New York Times; 19.08.2021 (6) ‘We don’t follow a … The Guardian; 12.08.2021 Britain’s truck driver shortage The New York Times; 26.08.2021 (7) Anglicanism divided … The Guardian; 30.08.2021 (8) Sydney orders white … The Times; 24.08.2021 Chess mania lures … The Times; 07.09.2021 FREIBURG 19. & 20. November Kostenlos registrieren horizon-messe.de/freiburg references EINTRITT FREI (9) In India, a debate over … The Washington Post; 29.08.2021 (10) National Trust to … The Guardian; 25.08.2021 Los Angeles is about to … Los Angeles Times; 01.09.2021 (11) Ireland’s days as a tax … The New York Times; 08.07.2021 (12) Mobster Al Capone’s … The Washington Post; 26.08.2021 (13) Wedding business is … The New York Times; 13.08.2021 (14) End of the road … The Times; 31.08.2021 Miss Marple is back … The Guardian; 31.08.2021 (15) ‘The Atmospherians’ by … The Washington Post; 26.05.2021 (16) ‘What are the chances?’ Chicago Tribune; 10.09.2021

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