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Migrating Monarchs

Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2026

Time: Wed., 10am-noon

Venue: Prairie Ridge Outdoor Classroom, Raleigh

Price: Free

Category: Family

Join us for a front-row seat to one of nature’s most incredible journeys, the Monarch butterfly migration! We’ll start this family friendly program in our Nature Neighborhood Garden to explore the habitats we steward here at Prairie Ridge and see how these spaces fuel Monarchs along their trek south. Then, we’ll head into the prairie to spot as many butterflies as we can! If we’re lucky, we might even catch and release a live Monarch butterfly. We will learn about the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project and Monarch Watch collaborative science projects along the way.

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Migrating Monarchs

When
This Wednesday
Wed, Sep 16, 2026
Wed., 10am-noon
Ages
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Price
Free
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Join us for a front-row seat to one of nature’s most incredible journeys, the Monarch butterfly migration! We’ll start this family friendly program in our Nature Neighborhood Garden to explore the habitats we steward here at Prairie Ridge and see how these spaces fuel Monarchs along their trek south. Then, we’ll head into the prairie to spot as many butterflies as we can! If we’re lucky, we might even catch and release a live Monarch butterfly. We will learn about the Monarch Larvae Monitoring Project and Monarch Watch collaborative science projects along the way.

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Migrating Monarchs runs Wed, Sep 16, 2026, Wed., 10am-noon.

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Prairie Ridge Outdoor Classroom is at 1671 Gold Star Dr., Raleigh, NC. Open in Google Maps.

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