LAKE LUZERNE, N.Y. (AP) – A monarch butterfly has a chance at completing its species’ famed migration to central Mexico thanks to some tiny cardboard splints, a bit of contact cement and a trucker from Alabama.

The insect’s broken wing was splinted by an upstate New York couple who then helped it hitch a ride south after the weather in the southern Adirondacks turned cold.

About three weeks ago, Jeannette Brandt was out for a bike ride in rural Hadley when she spied the injured butterfly and took it home in her emptied water bottle.

The couple took the healed monarch in a shoebox to Scotty’s, a busy truck stop about 35 miles north of Albany. Anybody looking for company on the trip south?

Eventually, a trucker from Alabama, on his way to Florida, raised his hand. On Tuesday, the trucker called: The butterfly was loose in Florida with its mended wing.