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Entry to Mexico’s most popular monarch butterfly sanctuary should cost more...
Ocampo, Michoacán — It’s a Thursday in February at El Rosario Monarch Butterfly Preserve in Michoacán, Mexico. Groups of Mexican school children mingle with tourists from all over the world. Visitors...
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Monarch butterfly numbers drop 53% as spring migration begins
One group of travelers not canceling their flight plans this spring: monarch butterflies. That said, the migratory population currently heading north from their winter roosts in Mexico will be 53%...
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Happy 50th Earth Day: Monarch butterflies enjoy a win of sorts
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and University of Illinois-Chicago announced what’s being billed as the largest agency-industry agreement to boost pollinator habitat in our nation’s history...
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Monarch butterflies heading our way
SAN ANTONIO — In this year unlike any other, the 2020 monarch butterfly migration has begun. Masses of the iconic insects are moving south from Canada and the northern U.S. in keeping with the...
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Can’t get outside? Track the 2020 monarch butterfly migration from your desk
At 8:30 AM Central Daylight Time on Tuesday, September 22, the earth will reach the point in its orbit when, for a few short moments, the sun shines directly on the equator. This results in the Fall...
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A monarch at my Abuela’s Day of the Dead Altar
EDITOR’S NOTE: The following remembrance by writer Alfredo Avalos puts in perspective the profound multiple meanings of the monarch butterfly and its migration. Alfredo Avalos Growing up in Mexico...
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US Fish and Wildlife Service rules monarch butterflies worthy of protection,...
One could compare the recent US Fish and Wildlife Service decision on the state of monarch butterflies to a hospital overwhelmed with COVID-19 patients. Too many sick people and not enough...
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Reduced monarch butterfly population heads north from Mexico in wake of...
Storm Uri gripped Texas for 151 continuous freezing hours in February and took a major toll on Texas wildlife. Birds, exotic game, armadillos, myriad fish, bats and other creatures perished in the...
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Monarch butterflies arrive in Texas to freeze-stunted milkweed and nectar plants
The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. The historic snowstorm...
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Two monarch butterflies tagged on the LLano River in honor of lost loved ones...
Two monarch butterflies tagged in honor of lost loved ones during San Antonio’s month-long Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival last October were recovered in Mexico, Monarch Watch announced this...
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“Things look good” as 2021 monarch butterfly migration takes flight
The monarch butterfly migration of 2021 has begun, and based on reports from Canada and sightings of the iconic insects in San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country, the insects are running strong. “Two...
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Get your wings on for 2021’s month-long Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator...
The sixth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, a month-long celebration inspired by the monarch butterfly during its peak migration season in San Antonio, takes flight this October. After...
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Massive arrivals of monarch butterflies in the Texas Hill Country signal 2021...
Monarch butterfly experts predicted a late migration this year, but taggers on the Llano River this weekend hit the jackpot with thousands of monarch butterflies arriving in what appears to be an early...
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Insider’s guide to 2021 Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival at...
Change is the only constant and this year’s sixth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival will be substantially different from years’ past. The FREE, family friendly event has a new venue this...
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Get your wings on for the seventh annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator...
The seventh annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, a month-long celebration inspired by the monarch butterfly during its peak migration season in San Antonio, takes flight this October. The...
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Ten years later, the classic “Flight of the Butterflies” to screen at the...
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