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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Monarch Population Status
3 August 2018 | Author: Chip TaylorWhen it comes to estimating the size of the migration, each year is a series of experiments, with numerous hypotheses, during which I try to match what I know about monarchs with the progression of the seasonal conditions that influence ...
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The monarch decline: when did it begin?
2 August 2018 | Author: Chip TaylorMonarch Watch began with a simple tagging program in 1992 followed, in the early years of our program, by attempts to educate the public about monarch biology and research. More recently, our emphasis has been on monarch conservation. The conservation ...
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Monarch Population Status
24 July 2018 | Author: Chip TaylorA message to all taggers Hear 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 ...
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Monarch Population Status
20 July 2017 | Author: Chip TaylorI’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 TaylorThose 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 TaylorAt 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 TaylorComments 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 TaylorRestoring 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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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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