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Climate change blamed for 15% drop in migrating Monarch butterfly population
Monarch butterflies have left their roosts in Mexico and will be arriving in the “Texas Funnel,” which includes San Antonio and the Hill Country in the next few weeks. Those tracking their great...
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Five monarch butterflies tagged and released at San Antonio Festival made it...
Five out of 720 commercially reared monarch butterflies tagged and released at our 2017 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival in San Antonio were recovered in Mexico, citizen science organization...
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Monarch Zones: bold move or bad idea for expanding monarch butterfly population?
MARION, IOWA–Hundreds of fourth and fifth instar monarch caterpillars have replaced prize-winning show horses as the preferred livestock at Clearwater Farm in Linn County, Iowa. The hungry creatures...
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Butterflies without Borders Forum 2018: Migration, politics, and pesticides
Monarch butterfly and forestry scientists, a litigant in the border wall dispute, and an activist journalist who has taken Monsanto to task will gather to discuss the future of the Americas’ most...
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Butterflies w/o Borders: Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival set for...
The third annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, three-days of science, art, education and celebration, will take place October 19 -21 in San Antonio at the Pearl. The mission of the...
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Monarch expert Karen Oberhauser to speak at Butterflies without Borders forum
The sensory overload of walking into a forest that holds a billion Monarchs. That’s what biologist Karen Oberhauser, Ph.D, remembers most vividly from her first trip to the monarch butterfly roosting...
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Banner year for monarch butterfly migration? Texas Hill Country ready
The 2018 monarch butterfly migration is off to a great start. Members of the DPLEX, an email listserv and online community that includes hundreds of monarch butterfly aficionados throughout Canada and...
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A tense online debate: raising monarch butterflies at home
The growing popularity of raising monarch butterflies at home has sparked a contentious debate among citizen scientists, professional academics, and butterfly enthusiasts. Scientists and citizen...
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Forest Ecologist and NWF monarch specialist to appear at Butterflies w/o...
Forest ecologist and National Wildlife Federation Monarch Outreach Coordinator Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñòn will trek from Austin to San Antonio October 19 to participate as a panelist in Butterflies without...
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San Antonio celebrates third annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival...
Mother Nature took a short break from the rainiest autumn in memory to celebrate the third annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival on Sunday. The three-day Festival rallied as the clouds...
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Weird, late monarch butterfly migration finally reaches Mexico
Migrating monarch butterflies finally made it to the Mexican mountains last week–late, but intact. For months, scientists and citizen scientists have been predicting the largest migration in a decade,...
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Monarch butterfly population up in Mexico, down in California
When it comes to the 2019 monarch butterfly population, the numbers suggest catastrophe in California and a rebound in Mexico. On the west coast, the news is dismal. The western population of monarch...
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Migrating monarch butterfly population vaults 144%, highest in 12 years
The population of monarch butterflies that overwinter in Mexico has jumped more than 144% over last year, Mexican officials announced today. The butterflies occupied 6.05 hectares (about 15 acres) of...
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Monarch butterflies head our way as big wildflower bloom awaits
Monarch butterflies have begun their multi-generation migration north from Mexico, following a season that counted their largest overwintering population in a decade. Favorable conditions in South...
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Q&A: Migration expert Andy Davis says for monarchs, it’s “survival of the...
Migration studies expert Andy Davis sometimes finds himself at odds with the running narrative of the monarch butterfly migration. Davis, a research scientist in the University of Georgia Odum School...
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Plentiful wildflowers ready for first generation of monarch butterflies
South Texas is seeing an abundance of monarch butterfly caterpillars in recent weeks. Resulting chrysalises and butterflies suggest a robust 2019 monarch butterfly season as a bounty of wildflowers...
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Three monarch butterflies tagged at San Antonio Festival recovered in Mexico
Three of 690 commercially bred monarch butterflies tagged and released at San Antonio’s 2018 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival were recovered in Mexico, citizen science organization Monarch...
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Study of “genetic franken monarchs” provokes online ire and debate
A new study that suggests monarch butterflies fostered from the wild or cultivated by commercial breeders have trouble migrating and can exhibit unusual genetic traits hit the monarch butterfly...
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Here they come! Monarch butterflies heading south in what could be a late,...
SAN ANTONIO — Monarch butterflies have begun their southbound migration in what could be a banner year. The iconic black and orange butterflies will start arriving here in the coming weeks, with peak...
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Waggle Dance, anyone? Learn how at Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival
On Sunday, October 20, San Antonio will have a unique opportunity to learn the Waggle Dance, the unique, booty-shaking romp that bees perform for each other to communicate the location of nectar and...
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