{"id":5100,"date":"2020-08-25T13:05:26","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/?post_type=digest&#038;p=5100"},"modified":"2020-08-25T13:05:26","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:05:26","slug":"200-monarch-butterflies-released-at-dawson-and-around-montreal","status":"publish","type":"digest","link":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/dnews\/200-monarch-butterflies-released-at-dawson-and-around-montreal\/","title":{"rendered":"200 Monarch butterflies released at Dawson and around Montreal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Sustainability Office did the Monarch Nursery project a little differently. Usually employees foster Monarch butterfly chrysalises as a team in their offices. This year, employees brought their chrysalises home to share the amazing experience with their families and neighbours.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring these unknown and different times, it seems the monarch chrysalises have brought joy and uplifted the spirits of those caring for them,\u201d said Jennifer De Vera of the Sustainability Office.<\/p>\n<p>So many foster parents sent reports about the releases accompanied by photos and videos.<\/p>\n<p>Some of these have been shared on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Sustainable-Dawson-121479001240144\">Sustainable Dawson Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In total, 200 butterflies were released at Dawson College and all over the Montreal area. \u201cWe already found Monarch eggs on the milkweed in the\u00a0Dawson\u00a0Peace Garden last Wednesday! \u201c reported Jennifer. \u201cThis is proof that our efforts in caring for the chrysalises and having the many Dawson gardens is providing a safe haven for these beautiful species at risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One of the Dawson foster parents, Michelle Lee of the Campus Life and Leadership team made a great time lapse video of her family\u2019s chrysalises eclosing. You can watch that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Tomboy1973\/posts\/10157627888190998\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year the Sustainability Office did the Monarch Nursery project a little differently. Usually employees foster Monarch butterfly chrysalises as a team in their offices. This year, employees brought their chrysalises home to share the amazing experience with their families and neighbours. \u201cDuring these unknown and different times, it seems the monarch chrysalises have brought&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":5101,"menu_order":99,"template":"","digest_categories":[220,235,213,247],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digest\/5100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digest"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/digest"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digest\/5100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5102,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digest\/5100\/revisions\/5102"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"digest_categories","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www-chris.dawsoncollege.qc.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/digest_categories?post=5100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}