Category: Monarchs
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Monarch Head Start: Rescuing the Western Monarch Migration
California’s Western Monarch Migration utterly collapsed in 2021 and is facing imminent elimination. Here is an article regarding Stu and Dan Gluesenkamp’s effort to coordinate a desperate rescue operation that may help Western monarchs recover to some extent from the 99+% decline that they’ve suffered since the 1980s. Time is of the essence because, as…
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Creekside Science Tackles Monarch Butterfly Overwintering Habitat Across California
The Western monarch butterfly population that overwinters in California is in a state of collapse from a panoply of causes, including pesticide use, climate change, land use-change, and deterioration of the overwintering sites along the coast. Stu has been working with overwintering monarchs since 1990, using hemispherical (fisheye) photography to quantify canopy structure and map…
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