Monarch Population Status

20 July 2017 | Author: Chip Taylor

I’ve done many things in my career that I’ve enjoyed greatly and among those was teaching a course in honey bee biology. The course incorporated some hands-on lessons in how to manage bees for pleasure and the sweet rewards bees ...

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Monarch Population Status

11 May 2017 | Author: Chip Taylor

Those of us who are educators, and who follow monarchs closely, are being educated by the monarchs themselves this spring. The movement and behavior of monarchs returning from Mexico has been unprecedented. I'll save the details for a longer Status ...

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Spring roosting: A rare event

11 April 2017 | Author: Chip Taylor

At 6:32PM on Tuesday (4 April) I received the following message from a landowner I know near Bixby, in northeastern Oklahoma. “Looking at hundreds of monarchs right now on the pine trees down by our gate. I assume they blew in ...

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Comments on Flockhart et al. (2017)

18 March 2017 | Author: Chip Taylor

Comments on Flockhart et al. 2017 by Chip Taylor, Monarch Watch Regional climate on the breeding grounds predicts variation in the natal origin of monarch butterflies overwintering in Mexico over 38 years D. T. TYLER FLOCKHART, LINCOLN P. BROWER, M. ISABEL ...

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FWS/NRCS Conservation Plan

17 January 2017 | Author: Chip Taylor

Restoring habitat for any species is complicated and requires a great deal of thought and lots of research to establish best practices. The following “plan” and set of guidelines was issued last Friday (13 January) under the title Monarch Butterfly Conference ...

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In Pursuit of a Little History – A Retraction

5 December 2016 | Author: Chip Taylor

“In Pursuit of a Little History” Monarch Watch Season Summary 1998 A RETRACTION Mea culpa is a Latin phrase that means "through my fault" and is an acknowledgement of having done wrong. The expression is used also as an admission of having made ...

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Monarch Population Status

7 July 2016 | Author: Chip Taylor

As most of you know, the summer of 2015 produced a strong migration and a relatively large overwintering population (4.01 hectares). To place this population growth in context, let’s review the last several years. The population declined following each of ...

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Monarch Population Status

4 May 2016 | Author: Chip Taylor

On February 26th, World Wildlife Fund Mexico in collaboration with SEMARNAT and CONANP and the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve (MBBR) announced the total forest area occupied by overwintering monarch colonies. Nine colonies were located this winter season with a total ...

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Creating a Monarch Highway

1 December 2015 | Author: Chip Taylor

Monarch Butterfly Recovery Plan: Part Two by Chip Taylor, Monarch Watch My first attempt at outlining a monarch recovery plan was written in March 2014 (http://monarchwatch.org/recovery-plan). Although monarch conservation has been discussed at federal and state levels as well as within and ...

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Monarch Population Status

6 August 2015 | Author: Chip Taylor

It appears that I’ve made another wrong turn. My monarch GPS keeps saying "Recalculating, recalculating." I get tired of hearing that refrain but when the GPS insists that you are off the preselected path, it’s wise to pay ...

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