[PCA] Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper launching today

[Matthew Shepherd]

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
<http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/MonarchMap-NatureServe-10.20.png>
are less clear. The Western Monarch Milkweed Mapper, a web-based citizen
science project, is being launched today that will engage people 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
<http://www.xerces.org/blog/2017-monarch-numbers-are-down-lengthening-a-worrying-trend/>—and
the plants on which it relies.



There’s lots of information about WMMM in a blog written by Xerces’
Stephanie McKnight and a press release. Feel free to share these—and to
contribute records of milkweeds and monarchs!



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/



Matthew







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Matthew Shepherd

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