Sam Droege, USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Biologist, and a bee expert who has studied native bees all around the world, gave a presentation on specialist bees and the plants that support them at the Arlington Library on May 11, 2015. The talk was sponsored jointly by the VNPS Potowmack Chapter, and the Arlington Regional Master Naturalists. Rising awareness of the important role of native bees along with a recent.
A Spartan-led research team has uncovered an answer — at least for the most recent population decline — with a huge assist from volunteers. Read the article here: https://msutoday.msu.edu/news/2021/eastern-monarch-butterfly-disappearing
Bees, bats, birds and butterflies do us an important service: As they visit flowers to feed on nectar, they carry pollen from plant to plant. This movement of pollen from a flower’s male stamen to its female stigma — or that of the next flower — fertilizes plants and produces fruits and seeds. Read more here.
As summer begins to fade and fall creeps into the air, the monarch butterflies we’ve enjoyed during the heat of summer begin to migrate to their overwintering grounds. Most will migrate to Mexico, and some will migrate to southern California. This is an amazing, one-of-a-kind journey made only by monarch butterflies! From September 5th to September 12th, we invite you to celebrate – and protect – the migration by participating.
In need of more outdoor activities? Consider participating in this tri-national community science effort! Join us and thousands of volunteers across North America from July 24 – August 2, 2020 for the 4th annual International Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz). To participate, simply go out and look for and report milkweed plants and all life stages of monarch butterflies (monarch eggs, caterpillars, pupae, and adults). To take part in the Blitz, submit your data to the.
The monarch butterfly has a new chance at recovery, thanks to the launch of the Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange and inspiring commitments from early participants. The Monarch Butterfly Habitat Exchange is an innovative market-based program dedicated to restoring and conserving high-quality monarch habitat on America’s private working lands. It’s been dubbed an ‘Airbnb for butterflies’ because it’s the only program of its kind that can open the vast untapped potential.
I don’t know about you, but one way I cope with winter is by planning my garden. It’s my philosophy that it’s never too early to be thinking about the next growing season and lately my thoughts have leaned towards how I am going to transform my property into a Monarch butterfly (and pollinator) paradise! How many of you also have this goal? read entire article here
The pleasure afforded by the shade of the giant bur oak overhanging my garden is more than doubled these days by the flitting of monarch butterflies. As they flutter from milkweed to corn tassel to oak leaf, seeming to leave orange and black contrails in their wake, they heighten nature’s beauty while distracting a shade-seeking gardener from unpulled weeds and unmown grass. read entire article here
Got Milkweed? FREE Summer Workshop For Educators. St. Olaf College, Northfield, MN. July 11-13, 2017. Monarch caterpillars only eat one kind of plant–milkweed. As monarch butterfly populations are declining and more people are planting milkweed, what is important to understand about this food source? This workshop introduces participants to a distributed research project designed to help students understand evolution and ecology through inquiry about milkweed plants while simultaneously gathering data.
Join us for hands-on demonstrations, activities, and information about installing and managing native habitat for monarchs and other wildlife on farms. We are offering a series of field days across Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Choose the date and location that works best for you! Field days are free! Pre-registration is requested. Topics Covered: Site selection and site prep methods for native plantings Seed mix design, planting methods, and management Native.
Iowa took a large step Monday toward helping the recovery of monarch butterflies, with the introduction of a strategy designed to help keep the threatened insects off the national endangered species list. The 135-page plan helps provide farmers, backyard gardeners and others with a road map for boosting monarch butterfly habitat in Iowa. Nearly 40 agriculture, conservation, business, utility and government groups, calling themselves the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium, pulled.
An area of woodlands measuring 2.91 hectares, occupied by 13 monarch butterfly colonies, was identified. This represents a 27.42% decrease from the 2015–2016 season, which accounted for 4.01 hectares. This is the first time Mexico has reported a small wintering colony established in the town of Real del Mar in Tijuana, Baja California Norte. more info here
