Celebrate National Pollinator Week by helping western monarchs marinij.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from marinij.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Researchers have announced that the Monarch butterfly population has continued to grow for the second year in a row. Here's how you can help the progress.
The population of western monarch butterflies reached its highest numbers since the year 2000, with more than 335,000 butterflies counted at their California and Arizona overwintering sites during the 26th annual Thanksgiving Western Monarch Count. “We can all celebrate this tally,” Emma Pelton, a conservation biologist at the Xerces Society and western monarch lead said in […]
February 11, 2021
Photo Cheryl Schultz
Researchers created the “Western Monarch Mystery Challenge” to help inform conservation efforts for the plummeting western monarch population.
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. Migratory western monarch has declined by more than 99% since the 1980’s. The Xerces Society, an international invertebrate conservation nonprofit, reported that the total number counted in 2020 was down to 1,914, a drop by more than 90% from the prior year a count already below the threshold at which scientists warned the migration may collapse.
To help scientists gain insight into migratory monarchs this spring, researchers are inviting the community to participate in the Western Monarch Mystery Challenge. The challenge was started by a group of researchers from Washington State University, Tufts University, University of California at Santa Cruz and the Xerces Society to help fill a critical gap in knowledge about habitat needs of migrating monarchs in the spring. Runnin