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by **Lindabird** » Mon Sep 11, 2006 6:41 am

Hi! I only ordered 75 tags, but will have approx. 150 to 200 to release. Is there a preference on the gender of the butterfly which I should tag?

This might be a dumb questions, but I'm new to this.

Linda

by **Lindabird** » Mon Sep 18, 2006 12:03 am

Hmmmm....I guess this was a dumb question. Oh well, I just ordered 150 more tags so I will hopefully have enough for all of them!

by **Mona Miller** » Fri Feb 01, 2008 6:07 pm

There are no dumb questions, just questions that are never answered because people feel they are dumb.

The sex ratio of butterflies is roughly 50/50 so tagging either is fine. Females can't lay eggs without males and there would be no males or females without females.

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Tag Male or female? Short on tags?

Tag Male or female? Short on tags?

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