[Pollinator] Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper launching today

[Candace Fallon]

Hi everyone,

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.

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!

Blog:
http://www.xerces.org/blog/help-researchers-track-milkweeds-and-monarchs-across-the-west/
Press Release:
http://www.xerces.org/2017/02/16/new-western-monarch-and-milkweed-website-launched/

Candace

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