<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi everyone,</div><div> </div><div>The monarch butterflies overwintering in California will soon be leaving their coastal groves and those in Mexico will head north. During the spring and summer they spread out across North America, finding milkweed and laying eggs, before the late-summer generation migrates to overwintering sites. Where monarchs go and where they breed is pretty well known in the eastern half of the continent, but the details of where they go to breed during these months and their migration routes across the western states are less clear. The Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper, a web-based mapping project, is being launched today that will engage citizen scientists and researchers throughout the western states in helping to fill these gaps and support conservation of this remarkable butterfly—a task that has greater urgency with the recent population estimates—and the plants on which it relies.</div><div> </div><div>There’s a lot of information about WMMM in a blog and press release. Feel free to share these—and to contribute records of milkweeds and monarchs in the West!</div><div> </div><div>Blog: <a href="http://www.xerces.org/blog/help-researchers-track-milkweeds-and-monarchs-across-the-west/">http://www.xerces.org/blog/help-researchers-track-milkweeds-and-monarchs-across-the-west/</a></div><div>Press Release: <a href="http://www.xerces.org/2017/02/16/new-western-monarch-and-milkweed-website-launched/">http://www.xerces.org/2017/02/16/new-western-monarch-and-milkweed-website-launched/</a></div><div> </div><div>Candace</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_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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