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Monarch
A data capture program from Datawatch Corporation, Chelmsford, MA, (www.datawatch.com), that is used to transfer data from mainframe and minicomputer reports to the PC. It uses report files that contain data ready to print. Users identify the data directly from the report format on screen, and the program copies the data into the fields of various database or spreadsheet formats for the PC.
monarch
1. a sovereign head of state, esp a king, queen, or emperor, who rules usually by hereditary right
2. a large migratory butterfly, Danaus plexippus, that has orange-and-black wings and feeds on the milkweed plant: family Danaidae


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The Doug Blachly Butterfly Trail and Garden features native plants and special feeders that attract many species of butterflies, including Red Admiral, Hackberry, Silver Emperor, Eastern Black Swallowtail, Question Mark, and, of course, the familiar black and orange Monarch butterflies.
While studying butterflies, the students learned about how, a couple of years ago, 80 percent of Monarch butterflies died in Mexico, during the species annual migration, there was a cold snap.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] From time immemorial, monarch butterflies have been migrating thousands of miles from the Great Lakes region of North America to spend their winters in the dense oyamel forests of the Mexican states of Michoacan and Mexico.
 
 
 
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