By Nick Simonson Imagine having to choose just one food to live off for half of your life. While I’m certain fried walleye would be a good option, or pizza would work, or even wild rice brats fresh off the grill could sustain about anyone, the hedging exhibited just in this sentence alone shows […]
Milking It for Monarchs —
Today is an exciting day in the Library of Curiosities household. Though the past Spring and Summer season I was on the hunt. Loaded up with muddy buckets, dirty shovels, and nitrile gloves (all leaving their dusty mark on the floorboard of trusty rusty adventure mobile), I set out on a mission of collection. Verbena, […]
via Pollinator Palace – My Journey to Create a Monarch Waystation — Library of Curiosities
When monarch butterflies wing their way south to central Mexico each fall, they use the sun to ensure that they stay on course. But how they head in the right direction on cloudy days has been a mystery—until now. It turns out they use Earth’s magnetic field as a kind of backup navigational system. It’s […]
via Monarch Butterflies travel by the Sun and Compass. — THE OLD GUV LEGENDS
“A new United Nations report highlighting the devastating impact of humans on the natural world should serve as an urgent ‘wake-up call’ to policymakers in the Cayman Islands and across the globe, according to a host of environmental officials, researchers and non-profits.” James Whittaker reports for the Cayman Compass, writing about the most threatened animals […]
via Nature’s dangerous decline: 1 million species facing extinction — Repeating Islands
This video says about itself: Thursday, 30 January 2020 Missing Mexican butterfly conservationist found dead MEXICO CITY — The body of a Mexican conservationist devoted to the protection of the monarch butterfly in Mexico was found on Wednesday, two weeks after he went missing, the authorities said. Homero Gómez González managed a butterfly sanctuary in […]
via Logging corporations murder Mexican monarch butterfly conservationists — Dear Kitty. Some blog
The Liuwa Plain National Park stand in the far west of Zambia; they are exceedingly remote and wild. The national park is also one of the most amazing wildlife parks in Africa – it’s certainly one of the least visited. At the right time of year, a safari to the Liuwa Plains can be as […]
via Liuwa Plain National Park; Zambia Africa — Enjoy Green Travel to Zambia
Caribou in Alaska and Canada migrate up to 1,350 kilometers round trip each year, a study reports.
via Caribou migrate farther than any other known land animal — Science News
Create, Conserve, Protect… The Monarch butterfly migration is a phenomenon, mainly across North America, where millions of Monarchs (Danaus plexippus) migrate from the United States and Canada to mountains in central Mexico, where they wait out the winter until conditions favor a return flight in the spring. Eastern Monarchs spend summers east of the Rocky Mountain […]
“It might take the monarchs as many as four to five generations to complete the journey all the way back up to Canada” Monarch butterflies travel all the way to Dominica! Researchers from Canada say they take generations to do it! Monarch Butterflies Migration Tracked Through Generations Across North America August 07, 2013 – News […]
via Monarch Butterfly Migration Takes Generations! — Natural Living in Dominica Blog
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