Van der Heide got her start at Cal Poly, tagging monarchs by numbering their wings in Sharpie and trying to find them later ...
For the first time in California, citizen scientists can join the effort to track monarch butterflies thanks to Blu+, a new ...
The monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) population has plummeted by 80% to 95% since the 1990s, depending on the region and ...
Biologists have attached tiny trackers to five of Goleta’s beloved monarch butterflies to track behavior, for the first time ever along the Central ...
The tags weigh just 60 milligrams — about three grains of rice. Researchers have tagged more than 400 monarchs this year and ...
In Oklahoma, by late November, native butterflies have entered overwintering stage. Curled up under a hay bale, hanging onto ...
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Monarch butterflies return to Santa Cruz

Monarch butterflies from the western United States have arrived in Santa Cruz and other parts of the California Coast, clumping in the thousands on branches of Monterey pine, coastal redwoods and ...
How do you teach people to count butterflies? Well, community scientist Richard Rachman likes to start by taping Doritos to trees.  Rachman is a plant ecologist by trade, but is also a volunteer with ...