Join citizen scientist Craig Hensley as he searches for monarch eggs and larva on milkweed as a way to gather important data on monarch butterfly migration. My name is Craig Hensley. I'm a naturalist, ...

Monarch butterfly populations have nearly doubled this year, an annual survey of the species found. At the end of each summer, the beloved pollinators migrate from southern Canada and the northern and ...

The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) is a citizen science project involving volunteers from across the United States and Canada in monarch research. It was developed in 1997 by researchers at ...

CHICAGO — An expert has confirmed what backyard gardeners and amateur naturalists have been saying for weeks: There are fewer monarch butterflies in Illinois this summer. At the national Monarch Larva ...

AMES, Iowa — What humans do — and don’t do — can have direct, damaging effects on monarch butterflies. Karen Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum and the founder and ...

Cindy Peterson’s voice modulates, she laughs a hearty laugh, her eyes flash and change. She flits from fact to fact like one of her Monarch butterflies, as she brings out ever more detail about these ...

Every Monday in August, Heidi Emmons is leading a group of citizen scientists into fields containing milkweed to count monarch caterpillars and eggs. The goal is to learn more about how monarch ...

In 2020, around Thanksgiving, a total of fewer than 2,000 monarch butterflies were counted at around 250 overwintering sites where they have traditionally been counted in the state of California. A ...

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