A monarch butterfly (File photo courtesy of the New York State Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Centers)

LAKE LUZERNE (AP) — A southern Adirondack couple used their skill at handicrafts, their homemade honey and their gumption to mend a monarch butterfly's wing, nurse it back to health and find it a ride to a warmer climate. Jeannette Brandt spied the butterfly about three weeks ago when, out for a bike ride in rural Hadley, she pulled over on the shoulder to take off her coat. Noticing the butterfly's broken wing, she poured out her water bottle and placed the butterfly inside it. At home, she and her longtime partner, Mike Parwana, began nursing the butterfly, feeding it rotting pears and honey mixed with water. The pears came from a tree on their property. The honey came from the bees they keep. As the butterfly strengthened, they wondered whether they could fix its wing. They turned to the Internet, searching under "fixing a broken butterfly wing," and found a video posted by the Live Monarch Foundation, a nonprofit group from Boca Ra ton, Fla. The video, more than nine mi