PRINCETON — Gateway Services Inc. in Princeton will sponsor a free movie night to watch a documentary on the state butterfly — the Monarch — in celebration of National Pollinator Week, June 19-25. The movie will be playing at the Princeton Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, June 21, the Summer Solstice.
Participants can learn about the beautiful iconic orange and black butterflies’ 3,000-mile magical migration. The movie is a 2012 documentary which covers Fred Urquhart’s nearly 40-year-long scientific investigation into the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus), tracking the details of what is considered one of the longest known insect migrations on the planet — the flight of the Monarch butterfly from Central Mexico to the United States and Canada and back.
Ellen Starr, a pollinator advocate, will be there to talk about a little about pollinators and to answer questions at the end of the movie.