<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Monarchs are in decline across North America. With milkweed loss in the east identified as a major contributing factor to this decline, the national call to action has understandably focused primarily on planting milkweeds, which are the required host plants for monarch caterpillars. </span><span style="font-size:13px">Yet while restoring the millions of milkweed plants that have been lost is certainly an important strategy, monarchs need more than milkweed to support them throughout the year. Adult monarchs need nectar to fuel them during spring migration and breeding and to build up stores of fat which sustain them during fall migration and winter.</span><span style="font-size:13px"> </span><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:13px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">There are many sources of information about which species of native milkweeds are best for your region, but information on which nectar plants are best for monarchs has not been available for large areas of the U.S. Working with the Monarch Joint Venture and the National Wildlife Federation, the Xerces Society has created a series of nectar plant lists for the continental U.S. based on a database of nearly 24,000 monarch nectaring observations. Each of the 15 regional guides highlights species that are commercially available, are native to and widely found in the region, and are known to be hardy or relatively easy to grow in a garden setting. </font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Read more about this project on our <a href="http://www.xerces.org/blog/to-save-monarchs-we-need-more-than-just-milkweed/" target="_blank">blog</a>, or find a nectar plant guide for your region <a href="http://www.xerces.org/monarch-nectar-plants/" target="_blank">here</a>. These plant lists are works-in-progress and benefit from your help. You can submit additional monarch nectaring observations via our online <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfC85E-btqsGSrt16TSAogICzLV2PvOlrID-un-m0jWJpJQkA/viewform?c=0&w=1" target="_blank">survey</a>. We are grateful to the many different researchers and monarch enthusiasts across the country who have already contributed to our database - thank you!</font></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="m_-3230004978365664482gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><b style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)">Candace
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