Commentary: Recent Petition to Protect the Monarch Butterfly
2 September 2014 | Author: Chip TaylorOn August 26th 2014, The Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Food Safety, The Xerces Society, and Dr. Lincoln Brower submitted a petition to the Secretary of the Interior and the Fish and Wildlife Service requesting that the monarch butterfly ...
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Monarch Population Status
29 July 2014 | Author: Chip TaylorThose of you who follow monarchs closely are aware that the monarch population has been declining for the last 10 years with significant drops in the population each of the last three years. The number of trees and total area ...
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Milkweed inventory – plants remaining
27 May 2014 | Author: Jim LovettAlthough we have been shipping milkweeds like crazy - about 30K so far - we still have a few - actually quite a few (22K)- plugs left that are well rooted and ready to ship. We need to find homes ...
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Monarch Butterfly Recovery Plan
25 March 2014 | Author: Chip TaylorThe following is a memo outlining a recovery plan for monarch butterflies. On 1 March I received an email from a person well connected with monarchs asking me to prepare a document, a prospectus or memo, for business ...
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Monarch Population Status
29 January 2014 | Author: Chip TaylorThe overwintering numbers are in from Mexico and once again it’s bad news. The numbers are not a surprise; as early as May, we predicted that the population would be lower this winter. I’ll discuss our reasons for this expectation ...
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Importance of Monarch Conservation
24 January 2014 | Author: Jim Lovettby Candy Sarikonda, Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist I am a nurse. A mother. A lover of nature. I want to make this world a better place. And monarchs are helping me do just that. Monarch conservation is important ...
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A Bit of Monarch History
24 January 2014 | Author: Jim Lovettby Ilse Gebhard, Monarch Watch Conservation Specialist I recently received a folder labeled "National Butterfly" from a Kalamazoo Area Wild Ones member. He had found it while working on a project documenting the history of Michigan State University’s Kellogg ...
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North Florida Monarch Overwintering Count
24 January 2014 | Author: Jim LovettDO MONARCH BUTTERFLIES OVERWINTER ALONG THE GULF COAST OF NORTHERN FLORIDA? FINAL REPORT OF THE 2013 MONARCH OVERWINTERING COUNTS Richard G. RuBino August 2013 Summary: For years monarchs have been seen along the northern coast of the Gulf of Mexico during January and February, ...
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Moving for Monarchs (M4M)
19 December 2013 | Author: Chip Taylor"Moving For Monarchs" started with an email I received on the 20th of March. My inbox is flooded with emails, so many that I can't answer them all (and to those of you that I haven’t gotten back to – ...
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The Northward Migration: when does it end?
24 June 2013 | Author: Chip TaylorThere are numerous unanswered questions about monarchs. What causes the migration to start in the fall? Why do they fly to Mexico? Why do the overwintering colonies form where they do? Why do the monarchs halt their southern flight at ...
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