August 15, 2019
This photo shows a monarch butterfly wing soon after it emerged in Washington, Sunday, June 2, 2019. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Hand-raising monarch butterflies in the midst of a global extinction crisis, Laura Moore and her neighbors gather round in her suburban Maryland yard to launch a butterfly newly emerged from its chrysalis. Eager to play his part, 3-year-old Thomas Powell flaps his arms and exclaims, “I’m flying! I’m flying!”
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER, Associated Press
August 17, 2019