BRUNSWICK, Ohio -- The annual monarch butterfly tag and release event at Heritage Farm on Laurel Road was a big hit with a large crowd of observers this year.

Children crowded around the table where Alisa Gerbec and Sandy Barczyz demonstrated how to place a small GPS tag on a butterfly’s wing.

Then, lucky youngsters got to hold a monarch, then let it fly in hopes that it will make it to its winter home in Mexico.

But one beautiful monarch, identified as a female, would not leave one elementary student.

Jae’Lynn Scheiderer was volunteering in the big red barn. She took a break to watch the butterfly release and, when she returned, a butterfly alighted on her finger.

While all the other creatures had flown off -- even if it was just into the trees at the farm -- this one wouldn’t leave

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