Question

Answer the following question in about 40-50 words:

What vision did Ebright have in raising a flock of butterflies? (The Making of a Scientist)

Answer 1

Ebright aimed to raise a “flock” of monarchs catch a gravid female, collect her eggs, rear them through every life stage in his basement, tag thousands of emergent butterflies’ wings, and release them to efficiently produce many tagged monarchs for migration research.