[Pollinator] Fwd: New Ultralight Radio Tags Are Tracking Monarch Butterflies in Santa Cruz

[Isis Howard]

Isis Howard (she/her)

Conservation Biologist

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

503.212.0546 | isis.howard at xerces.org

xerces.org


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From: Isis Howard <isis.howard at xerces.org>
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: New Ultralight Radio Tags Are Tracking Monarch Butterflies in
Santa Cruz
To: Emma Pelton <emma.pelton at xerces.org>, Sara Cuadra <
sara.cuadra at xerces.org>


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Isis Howard (she/her)

Conservation Biologist

The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation

503.212.0546 | isis.howard at xerces.org

xerces.org


On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM Emma Pelton <emma.pelton at xerces.org> wrote:

> The Xerces Society and Point Blue Conservation Science are partnering with
> California State Parks and Santa Cruz County Parks to study monarch
> butterfly movement during their overwintering season. The conservationists
> gathered in mid November to attach small tags, weighing less than a tenth
> of a gram, to individual monarchs at Natural Bridges State Beach
> <https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=541>, Lighthouse Field State Beach
> <https://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=541>, and Moran Lake County Park
> <https://parks.santacruzcountyca.gov/Home/ExploreOurParksBeaches/AllCountyParks/MoranLakeCountyPark.aspx>.
> Additional monarchs have been tagged by project partners
> <https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/eb67e9c975994de8a17b95e8290858be#ref-n-J6ggah> further
> south on the Central Coast. Read our *press release* here:
> https://xerces.org/press/new-ultralight-radio-tags-are-tracking-monarch-butterflies-in-santa-cruz
>
> *StoryMap* about this effort as well as tagging by Althouse and Meade in
> San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara Counties:
> https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/eb67e9c975994de8a17b95e8290858be#ref-n-J6ggah
>
> --
> *Emma Pelton* (she/her)
> Senior Conservation Biologist
> The Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
> 503.212.0706 | emma.pelton at xerces.org
> xerces.org
>
>
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