Promote collaborative conservation and respectful social engagement between the various constituencies (farmers, highway roadside landscapers, citizen scientists, ecological restorationists, conservation biologists, educators, naturalists, artists, writers and manufacturers) whose participation is required to ensure the continued presence of butterflies and their nectar plants in North America.
Adriana Briscoe, a professor of biology and ecology at UC Irvine, studies vision in butterflies. Turns out, butterflies…
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, finding the agency must take a…
In Chicago, hundreds of Mexican-American families are growing monarch butterflies, watching a caterpillar ball up into a green chrysalis,…
Better manage milkweeds and monarchs in the 31 million acres in the Conservation Reserve Program to protect their roosts, mating grounds and nectar resources from toxins and provide diverse habitat for these and other pollinators essential to food and fiber production.
Let’s hope all Americans become butterfly people once more, and work to co-design a more diverse, resilient, and equitable agricultural landscape for America’s future.
… Monarch butterflies were winging their way home for the winter. A peak experience for me.
Adriana Briscoe, a professor of biology and ecology at UC Irvine, studies vision in butterflies. Turns out, butterflies…
A Ninth Circuit panel ruled against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday, finding the agency must take a…
In Chicago, hundreds of Mexican-American families are growing monarch butterflies, watching a caterpillar ball up into a green chrysalis,…
When Gary Nabhan was growing up in the Indiana Dunes, Indiana, he remembered being sleepy in the middle of his class one day. Looking out the window, he studied the leaves of a tree nearby.
Nabhan, who would later find out he is color blind, thought the leaves had odd colors. And as this crossed his mind, the leaves — which turned out to be monarch butterflies — flew away. Nabhan’s lifelong fascination with pollinators had just begun. Pollinator animal species such as bees, bats and monarch butterflies are essential to biodiversity.
In an agreement approved today, the Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Food Safety accepted an extended deadline for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to decide on protection for monarch butterflies under the Endangered Species Act.
In light of the extreme effects climate had on the butterfly’s population last year, two more overwintering counts will be available before a listing decision is issued in December 2020.