Tracking Individual Monarchs with Radio Tags as Part of the Project Monarch Collaboration
17 November 2025 | Author: Kristen BaumWith today's New York Times article (We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. 17 November 2025) and press release from Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT) and the Cape May Point Arts & Science Center (CMPASC), we want to ...
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Radio-tagged monarch MW001 arrives at the MBBR
7 November 2025 | Author: Monarch WatchMonarch Watch is participating in the Project Monarch Collaboration to deploy BlūMorpho radio tags on monarchs during the fall migration this year. The Project Monarch Collaboration was founded through a partnership between Cellular Tracking Technologies and the Cape May Point ...
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A Remarkable Recovery
31 October 2025 | Author: Monarch WatchThank you to everyone who’s been participating in our tagging program this year! This program relies on the participation of many people to tag monarchs and send their data to us, helping us study the monarch fall migration. One of ...
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Does tagging harm monarchs?
18 July 2025 | Author: Kristen BaumWe receive lots of inquiries about monarchs every year, and this is the time of year when we start receiving questions about tagging, including if tagging can harm monarchs. We conducted an experiment last summer to compare survival of tagged ...
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Tag recovery list updated
16 May 2022 | Author: Jim LovettMore than 900 Monarch Watch tags were recovered from monarch overwintering sites in central Mexico during the 2021 tagging season. All of the tags have been examined and the "Tag recoveries from central Mexico" list has been updated. By default, ...
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Tagging wild and reared monarchs: Best practices
9 July 2019 | Author: Monarch WatchGreetings taggers and welcome to the 2019 monarch tagging season. This year marks Monarch Watch’s 28th season! Over the years, thousands of taggers have contributed to our tagging database. It is an enormous record and a veritable gold mine of ...
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A Message to all Taggers
3 August 2018 | Author: Chip TaylorHear ye! Hear ye! Taggers take note! What you have contributed to monarch science over the years has been incredible! Collectively, you have tagged well over 1.5 million monarchs in the last 26 years, from the front range in Colorado ...
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Tagging results and the monarch decline
2 November 2016 | Author: Jim LovettIs the monarch decline due to an increase in mortality during the fall migration? Chip Taylor, Jim Lovett and Ann Ryan Monarch Watch, Kansas Biological Survey, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS Introduction The authors of three recent papers dealing with the decline in monarch numbers ...
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Monarch Population Status
12 June 2012 | Author: Jim LovettWhat a spring it's been - the warmest in 117 years of record keeping and the warmest 12 months ever recorded in the United States. In response to the warm conditions the plants and insects have made early appearances. Some ...
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Tag Recovery Database Updated
30 May 2012 | Author: Jim LovettThe Monarch Watch Tag Recovery Database (monarchwatch.org/recoveries) has been updated - more than 16, 000 records now, in a searchable format. Check to see if any of your tags were recovered in Mexico this year :-) Tip: to generate a ...
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