[section title=”Page Section” bgcolor=”” fullbleed=”0″ csshook=””][row layout=”single” bgcolor=”” textcolor=”” padding=”pad-top” gutter=”gutter” csshook=””][column csshook=”” bgcolor=”” verticalbleed=”0″][textblock ]July 2, 2012 by Nella Letizia, College of Agricultural, Human and Natural Resource Sciences | WSU News
WALLA WALLA, Wash. – Gilbert London stands in front of a blue plastic food storage barrel converted into a Monarch butterfly rearing cage.
Inside, roughly two dozen opaque-green chrysalises hang from milkweed plants like living jewels. In roughly 10 days, the chrysalises that London helped to raise will yield the iconic adult butterflies with orange-and-black wings. He and five other Washington State Penitentiary offenders will tag the butterflies soon after that, readying them for their release as part of a study by Washington State University entomologist David James. The Monarchs will be free to leave then; London will not. read full article[/textblock][/column][/row][/section]