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For the first time, Nature NB deployed new Bluetooth-enabled tags on monarch butterflies in New Brunswick this year, allowing anyone with a smartphone to help track their journey to Mexico in real time.
Nature NB deployed the tiny solar-powered tags for the first time in New Brunswick this year
Jennifer William · CBC News
· Posted: Sep 19, 2026 9:20 AM EDT | Last Updated: 3 hours ago
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A monarch fitted with a solar-powered Blue Morpho tag feeds on goldenrod. The tags allow anyone with Bluetooth enabled on their phone to log the butterfly’s location. (Submitted by Francie Morgan)
For years tracking a tagged monarch butterfly relied on luck, on someone, somewhere along the migration route, finding the tiny sticker on a wing of the insect and reporting it.
This year Nature NB is using new technology that removes the guesswork entirely.
The organization deployed Bluetooth enabled tags on monarchs for the first time in New Brunswick this season, working in partnership with the Saint John Naturalist Club, Point Lepreau Bird Observatory and Environment and Climate Change Canada.
“It’s a very exciting new chapter in the monarch conservation world in the Maritimes,” said Francie Morgan,
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