Over the next few weeks I’ll be heading south to catch up with the monarch butterflies as they migrate to their overwintering sites in Michoacan, Mexico. This is my first attempt at blogging so it may take a little while to get it right, but I hope to post pictures and observations for friends, family, and students. Check back and see if I can do it!
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- Bas Relief, LLC Books, Educational Supplies and Artwork Celebrating Natural History (especially monarchs!) Bas Relief, LLC is the work of Ba Rea, exploring natural history. It includes books, educational materials, writing, and artwork. The subject matter often focuses on monarch butterflies and the milkweed community.
- Edith Smith's (of Shady Oak Farm) Wednesday, January 21, 2009, Blog page "What is Going On Inside a Monarch Chrysalis?" Edith Smith presents a great labelled image of the body parts visible on a newly formed monarch chrysalis.
- Journey North's Monarch pages An excellent resource for monarch information where students and monarch enthusiasts track monarch migration.
- Monarch Watch Monarch Watch at the University of Kansas offers tagging, Monarch Waystations programs and more.
- Monarchlab at the Univarsity of Minnesota Check out this excellent monarch site
- The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project A great citizen science project investigating the population dynamics of the monarch butterfly. You can be involved.
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Don’t forget to swing by and pick me up! Bags will definitely be packed and ready!
It sounds like Ba’s migration as well as the monarchs. 🙂
I’ll look forward to vicariously following your adventures (especially if you put up notices on Facebook when you’ve updated here?)
Are there still monarchs where you are or will they be migrating ahead of you. I like the photo the flower looks sort of like its growing out of your head. Is it goldenrod? Been a long time away from eastern flowers.
The monarchs, except for a few stragglers left our area (SE West Virginia) by early October. There are many flowers supplying nectar anymore. The plant growing out of my head is goldenrod…It’s a picture Bob took at Kiptopeek State Park in late October or 2005..I particularly like for the photographer and for the praying mantis you can’t see! (or was that one the Wheel Bug? It was a great day for monarchs and bugs of all sorts!)
Hello Ba, wish you well on your migration. We were in Queretaro, just a few miles from Sierra Chincua in the state of Michoacan, a month after Erin and Benjy’s wedding in 2005 and were swarmed by the monarchs. Take lots of pictures.