Trucker takes butterfly from NY to Fla.

LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) - A monarch butterfly freed in Florida this week took an unusual route.

Jeannette Brandt recently found the injured butterfly near her home in upstate New York. She and Mike Parwana fed the butterfly from fruit and honey they produce on their Lake Luzerne property.

They used shreds of cardboard as a splint to fix its broken wing. After about a week, the monarch was able to fly again but in need of warmer weather.

They put the butterfly in shoebox and headed to a truck stop. A trucker from Alabama who was headed to Florida agreed to transport it.

The trucker called the couple this week to say the butterfly had been set free in Florida, where tens of millions of other monarchs are making their winter migration to Mexico.