Preliminary List of 2007 Season Recoveries
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 at 12:43 pm by Monarch WatchFiled under Monarch Tagging | 2 Comments »
A preliminary list of Monarch Watch tags retrieved from Mexico last month is now available: 2007 Season Recoveries List The records are ordered by tag code so that you can easily look for tags you have used. We are in the process ...
2007 Season Tag Recoveries
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008 at 5:30 pm by Monarch WatchFiled under Mexico, Monarch Tagging | No Comments »
Predicting the number of monarch tags recovered in Mexico each winter is a bit of a guessing game. If we hear of a winter storm causing a lot of mortality at the colonies, we can anticipate that many tags will ...
Spring is Coming!
Friday, February 29th, 2008 at 5:26 pm by Monarch WatchFiled under Degree Days, Monarch Tagging, Monarch Waystations | 4 Comments »
Spring is coming and so are the monarchs. As the temperatures increase at the overwintering sites in Mexico from the low 60s in January to the high 60s and low 70s in early February monarch activity increases. The butterflies begin ...
2008 Tagging Kits
Thursday, January 31st, 2008 at 11:43 am by JimFiled under Monarch Tagging, Monarch Watch Shop | No Comments »
We are now accepting orders for the 2008 Monarch Watch Tagging Kits. As most longtime taggers know, we have a limited number of monarch tags created each year and demand always exceeds the supply. If you would like to participate ...
2007 Monarch Tagging
Thursday, January 10th, 2008 at 10:30 am by Monarch WatchFiled under Monarch Tagging | No Comments »
The number of orders for monarch tagging kits this past fall (1,800+) suggests that more people participated in tagging in 2007 than in any previous year. Moreover, the returned datasheets indicate that the tagging was quite successful overall. Most taggers ...