Monarch Butterflies Get Tiny Radio Trackers | Expedition Raw

we are trying to put the first
electronic tag on a free-flying
migrating monarch butterfly if that
works then we could for the first time
really follow them in the wild how they
migrate and find out exactly how they do
it
now let’s start wouldn’t lift off here
the tag is made out of a small battery
like a hearing aid battery the little
circuit and it just beeps and we
received this over the radio in an
antenna and that allows us to follow the
Eman they only have a few habitat places
if those areas are destroyed then
there’s no monarch butterflies anymore
bigboy wow that’s big like this is the
biggest butterfly we’ve got
Firdos it’s successful if the animal
doesn’t seem to be affected by the tax
so they move around normally they just
do their regular thing and you can
follow them mark you hear anything nope
lower to the ground
once we locate them from the air we come
back we want to find them again you want
to see what they’re doing that’s it big
boys ready to go go to Wisconsin find a
girlfriend there we go yeah
I built this thing from scratch to get
aerial shots for conservation research