AllforMonarchs

05/07/2023

03/01/2022

26% decline in central Mexico this year. Spring is coming - get ready to plant your milkweed!!!

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The number of monarch butterflies that showed up at their winter resting grounds in central Mexico decreased by about 26% this year, and four times as

12/13/2021

Monarchs are the only butterfly species to make a 'two-way' migration....

A clock in the antennae and a "sun compass" in the brain help guide these butterflies on their 2,000-mile trek to Mexico.

11/18/2021

$2 million/year added to the Infrastructure bill that was signed into law!! That will plant a lot of Milkweed - particularly when we will plant it for free!!!

"The Monarch Pollinator and Highway Act — reintroduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal (D-Santa Barbara), Rep. Jimmy Panetta (D-Carmel Valley) and Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) in March — would establish a federal grant program available to Native American tribes, federal land management agency and state departments of transportation to carry out pollinator-friendly practices on roadways and highway rights-of-way.

The bill has since been added to the $1 trillion Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act that President Joe is expected to sign into law on Monday.

Originally, the bill proposed providing $5 million per fiscal year from 2022 to 2028, but the language in the infrastructure package decreased that to $2 million per fiscal year."

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What’s the best time of day to see the monarch butterflies? A State Parks interpreter shares viewing tips.

11/18/2021

More good news from California!!

What’s the best time of day to see the monarch butterflies? A State Parks interpreter shares viewing tips.

11/04/2021

Here is one way to do it....Fly the Monarch to Texas!!!

https://www.kcci.com/article/iowa-southwest-airlines-patty-loving-helps-get-monarch-butterfly-south-before-winter/38153077 #

"I'm going to Texas tomorrow and it's just perfect. And I contacted the people at Southwest Airlines and they said yes," Patty Loving laughed.

10/30/2021

Signs of rebound of the population in California!!!

Last year marked a historic low for a population of western monarchs that has struggled in recent years, according to the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation.

10/29/2021

This "Monarch" not quite fully formed 😉

10/29/2021

Our formal 'dining room'...plenty of Milkweed, caterpillars, Monarchs, and frass (google it 🤮)

10/29/2021

Monarchs in large numbers can devour unsuspecting victims - we call them VAMPIRE MONARCHS!!!!