Texas Monarch Watch, est. 1993

06/20/2024

Greetings,

Next week's Austin Butterfly Forum zoom meeting will be presented by Tom Murray!!

Monday, June 24, at 7 pm Central Time (Dallas/Chicago)

As many people know, Tom is one of *the* most prolific contributors of high quality arthropod photos to both BugGuide and iNaturalist.

Title and Description:

BACKYARD MOTHS AND MORE:

Tom will focus on how to set up a light sheet, photography, how to identify moths and what else shows up on the sheet. Then he'll look at day-flying moths and finding caterpillars. Finally he'll take a trip south of the border to see some tropical moths.

BIO: Tom has always been fascinated with nature since early childhood and has carried that passion to this day. Since 2000 when he bought his first digital camera, Tom's been in the field and at his moth lights practically year round. In 2012 Tom's book, Insects of New England and New York was published. At his Groton, Ma. residence Tom has found and photographed over 1,730 species of moths in his yard!!

Austin Butterfly Forum Zoom Meeting Link
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/87075327573?pwd=PqarwBK2Hg9KpaIRKP84dpg10Td4e4.1

01/21/2016

National Butterfly Center is seeking a Development Professional to work with us on the Southernmost Monarch Waystation project...

Looking for rewarding work in the outdoors? The National Butterfly Center is seeking a Development Professional to work with us on the Southernmost Monarch Waystation project. Comment here or message us to receive the full job description.

10/28/2015

slow-mo danaid (monarch and queen) video from the Wildflower Center in Austin.
they are nectaring on shrubby boneset (Ageratina havanensis) (formerly in the genus Eupatorium) - late Oct. 2015

10/24/2015

looks like the highest winds (>75 mph) mostly hit w. Jalisco...
http://politico.mx/en-la-politica/localidades-impactadas-por-el-
huracan-patricia

Localidades impactadas por el huracán Patricia Político.mx, 23 de octubre de 2015 Político.mx presenta una colaboración con Cartográfica para conocer, de forma preventiva, los municipios y localidades que resultarán impactados por los efectos del huracán “Patricia”. En La Política, En La Política Bo…

10/22/2015

Monarchs passing through Alpine, Texas (Trans-Pecos) - Oct. 21, 2015

10/12/2015

cluster of monarchs in a central Texas pecan tree...

Another cluster

10/12/2015

monarchs currently passing though central Texas...

09/25/2015

last weekend's Texas Pollinator PowWow included Catalina Aguado Trail (holding mic). She's the last living member of the original team that first reported the monarch's overwintering colonies in central Mexico...
see link for more pix:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/108896707105682448113/albums/6198063537808633249

08/06/2015

brief overview of a series of monarch papers published yesterday discussing the apparently stable monarch population in e. US based on local survey data: http://news.sciencemag.org/climate/2015/08/monarch-butterfly-studies-tell-perplexing-tale

Mexico’s winter declines not obvious in summer surveys elsewhere

06/25/2015

$300K grant funded for UTSA to study monarch butterfly
http://www.utsa.edu/today/2015/06/monarch.html

(July 24, 2015) — Texas Comptroller Glenn Hegar announced funding for a $300,000 research proposal by UTSA to study the monarch butterfly. The research will address key questions about the monarch butterfly in Texas and fill important data gaps in determining its need for protection as the U.S. Fish…

04/03/2015

The "!-35 Monarch Corridor" is new to me. Anyone else heard of it?
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/roadside-utility-corridor-habitat/

Roadsides and utility corridors, some of the most unappreciated parts of the American landscape, could become vital sources of life in a time of ecological peril.

03/30/2015

first monarchs to cross the Rio Grande were reported Sunday (3/29)
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/maps/monarch_spring2015.html