MCC Butterfly LbNA #58897
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Add Location| Owner: | Prince Igor  |
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| Plant date: | Jul 26, 2011 |
| Location: | |
| City: | Clinton Township |
| County: | Macomb |
| State: | Michigan |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Prince Igor |
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| Last found: | Oct 23, 2018 |
| Status: | FFFFO |
| Last edited: | Oct 24, 2018 |
***THIS BOX HAS BEEN REPLACED ON 10/23/18***
The box is planted in the exact same location, but the landscape has changed a bit. Consequently, the clue has been updated
I have attended, graduated and taught at various colleges and universities in my career. To commemorate them, I have decided to make a letterbox for each of the schools. If a college has more than one campus, each campus will get a letterbox (provided I was at that campus for some classes). There are 10 schools/campuses in this series, with one of them being a mystery university.
One semester I was teaching General Biology and among the topics covered was the mimicry between the Monarch and Viceroy butterflies. One day, just to break the monotony of my lectures, I asked the class if MCC has sports teams and, if so, what was their nickname. Some students replied that yes they have sports teams, that some of them were even pretty good, and that they are called the Monarchs. The first thing that popped into my head was the Monarch butterfly. I said to the class, “They named themselves after a butterfly? That is so unusual.” There was absolute silence. No replies, no snickers, no laughter, no correcting me, nothing. I guess they either did not want to correct me or else they wanted me to go throughout life with this fallacy in my head. It was not until much, much later that I realized the MCC Monarchs were associating themselves with royalty, not insects. Still, a butterfly would be a great mascot. After all, Mohammed Ali used to say, ”Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.
Macomb Community College, Center Campus has a Nature Study area with some trails. It used to be an interpretive trail. There were a number of posts with signs describing the different trees and flora in front of you. Almost all the signs are gone. .
At the back of parking lot #3, you will see a wooden sign stating “Study Area, Center Campus, Nature Study Area, Biology Dept, 286-2283, J-106”. Right near the beginning of this trail, you will see 2 interpretive signs, “Virginia Creeper” and “Poison Ivy/Poison Oak”. Be forewarned, you may come across PI and PO, but I didn’t see any. Start walking down the trail. You will cross a small wooden bridge. On the other side us a wooden bench. Keep going straight down the trail. You will then come to another wooden bench. A little ways ahead you will see a large wooden bridge. Go toward the bridge. Just before you get to the bridge, there will be on your left a very small, almost unnoticeable trail. There will also be a large pond surrounded by a broken wooden fence. Turn left and go down this little trail. Do not go over the large wooden bridge. As you go down this side trail, the pond will be on your left. After a short distance, you will come to a small wooden bridge. Once across the bridge, take 13 steps. On your left will be a large uprooted tree lying on its side, just a few steps off the trail. Just above the bottom of the tree, on the pond side of the tree trunk, is the letterbox in a shallow depression covered with pieces of bark and sticks.
Note that if you take 25 steps from the small bridge, you will come across am interpretive sign saying "Vines". Turn around, you went too far..
The box is planted in the exact same location, but the landscape has changed a bit. Consequently, the clue has been updated
I have attended, graduated and taught at various colleges and universities in my career. To commemorate them, I have decided to make a letterbox for each of the schools. If a college has more than one campus, each campus will get a letterbox (provided I was at that campus for some classes). There are 10 schools/campuses in this series, with one of them being a mystery university.
One semester I was teaching General Biology and among the topics covered was the mimicry between the Monarch and Viceroy butterflies. One day, just to break the monotony of my lectures, I asked the class if MCC has sports teams and, if so, what was their nickname. Some students replied that yes they have sports teams, that some of them were even pretty good, and that they are called the Monarchs. The first thing that popped into my head was the Monarch butterfly. I said to the class, “They named themselves after a butterfly? That is so unusual.” There was absolute silence. No replies, no snickers, no laughter, no correcting me, nothing. I guess they either did not want to correct me or else they wanted me to go throughout life with this fallacy in my head. It was not until much, much later that I realized the MCC Monarchs were associating themselves with royalty, not insects. Still, a butterfly would be a great mascot. After all, Mohammed Ali used to say, ”Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee”.
Macomb Community College, Center Campus has a Nature Study area with some trails. It used to be an interpretive trail. There were a number of posts with signs describing the different trees and flora in front of you. Almost all the signs are gone. .
At the back of parking lot #3, you will see a wooden sign stating “Study Area, Center Campus, Nature Study Area, Biology Dept, 286-2283, J-106”. Right near the beginning of this trail, you will see 2 interpretive signs, “Virginia Creeper” and “Poison Ivy/Poison Oak”. Be forewarned, you may come across PI and PO, but I didn’t see any. Start walking down the trail. You will cross a small wooden bridge. On the other side us a wooden bench. Keep going straight down the trail. You will then come to another wooden bench. A little ways ahead you will see a large wooden bridge. Go toward the bridge. Just before you get to the bridge, there will be on your left a very small, almost unnoticeable trail. There will also be a large pond surrounded by a broken wooden fence. Turn left and go down this little trail. Do not go over the large wooden bridge. As you go down this side trail, the pond will be on your left. After a short distance, you will come to a small wooden bridge. Once across the bridge, take 13 steps. On your left will be a large uprooted tree lying on its side, just a few steps off the trail. Just above the bottom of the tree, on the pond side of the tree trunk, is the letterbox in a shallow depression covered with pieces of bark and sticks.
Note that if you take 25 steps from the small bridge, you will come across am interpretive sign saying "Vines". Turn around, you went too far..