Monarchs

One of the students in the VC 2nd grade asked me if there were Monarch butterflies. When I arrived I asked that question and was told that the Monarch was a butterfly rarely found. There are relatives of the Monarch seen more commonly, but not the one like in the U.S.

Today we saw several Monarchs on the transect we walked. These are very like the ones we find in the U.S.

There are over 300 species of butterflies in Vietnam - we have seen about 170. The ones used as indicators of forest health are only those that are found in the forests - not the common ones found throughout Vietnam.