Light pollution can disorient monarch butterflies
Besides planting milkweed in the garden, people interested in helping monarch butterflies might want to turn off the porch light.
Besides planting milkweed in the garden, people interested in helping monarch butterflies might want to turn off the porch light.
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Millions of monarch butterflies migrate each fall to a specific cluster of mountain peaks in central Mexico. How exactly they navigate to their winter home, and the way they choose their path, is a topic of great interest ...
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May 2, 2022
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Monarch butterflies, among the most iconic insects in North America, are increasingly plagued by a debilitating parasite, a new analysis shows. The Journal of Animal Ecology published the findings by scientists at Emory University ...
Ecology
Apr 13, 2022
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Each spring, millions of monarch butterflies leave their overwintering sites in the Sierra Madre mountains of central Mexico and begin their annual migration north across the United States.
Ecology
Apr 11, 2022
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Researchers have identified a species of milkweed that holds promise for planting on roadsides to improve conservation habitat for migrating monarch butterflies.
Plants & Animals
Feb 22, 2022
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An iconic winged beauty feared to be on the verge of extinction was spotted more around the West last year, including in Colorado.
Plants & Animals
Feb 16, 2022
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Beautiful "supertramp" birds in Southeast Asia are providing unique insights into how evolution is linked to flight ability and competition. New research testing decades-old theories has confirmed that the isolating effects ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 27, 2022
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The number of Western monarch butterflies overwintering in California rebounded to more than 247,000 a year after fewer than 2,000 appeared, but the tally remained far below the millions that were seen in the 1980s, leaders ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 25, 2022
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University of New Mexico Ph.D. candidate Ethan Gyllenhaal has been engaged in a series of research projects that use genomic analyses to explain the complex evolutionary processes that take place within and between island ...
Ecology
Jan 10, 2022
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Monarch butterflies are famous for their annual long-distance migration, which takes them over several thousand kilometers from the north of the USA to their overwintering habitat in central Mexico. On their migration, the ...
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