photo by: Shawn Valverde

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch's butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

Despite some rain early in the day, Monarch Watch’s annual butterfly tagging event went on at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday.

Each fall, Monarch Watch participants catch butterflies, affix circular tags to their wings to allow them to be identified later, and then release them again. As the Journal-World has reported, in more than 30 years, Monarch Watch has helped tag and track more than 2 million monarch butterflies as they migrate across North America from north to south each year.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, performs a demonstration at Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

Butterflies cling onto Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, at Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

Attendees of Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands inspect a display with monarchs and other insects on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

Used butterfly nets are piled up at Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

A monarch butterfly with a tag on its wing perches on a flower head at Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

One of the participants in Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event holds a butterfly at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.

photo by: Shawn Valverde

Volunteers get their nets and other equipment at Monarch Watch’s butterfly tagging event at the Baker Wetlands on Saturday, Sept. 21, 2024.