Do gardens foster biodiversity?
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September 15, 2021
The story of a scientific experience | Summer 2021 The recipe was simple: get day camp youngsters involved and introduce them to community research...Read more
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Monarchs don’t much care for heavy metal!
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July 7, 2021
Heavy metals are found naturally in the Earth’s crust. However, human activity stirs up an important amount of these metals into the environment...Read more
A Giant Swallowtail Butterfly’s Impressive Journey Northward
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March 10, 2021
You may have noticed specimens of a very beautiful butterfly last summer. It’s one that’s hard to miss: the giant swallowtail is the largest...Read more
Two new celestial bodies with strange properties
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September 2, 2020
A team made up of members of the general public and of researchers in astrophysics has just discovered two brown dwarfs with very strange properties...Read more
Getting a better understanding of the monarch’s spring migration
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August 19, 2020
A number of people have contacted us over the summer to ask how the monarch population is doing. Some of them mention that they’ve come across very...Read more
The entomological information service: learning about the insects that surround you!
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June 10, 2020
What’s the name of that little green metallic bee ? What’s that scary-looking thingy doing in my swimming pool? Is that big spider venomous? How can...Read more
A summer searching for monarchs and milkweed
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May 15, 2020
Community science programs are of great importance for research in conservation, especially in the case of the monarch butterfly. Nevertheless, it is...Read more
When monarchs roost
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October 9, 2019
It’s autumn, and monarchs are gradually heading south. During their migration they make stops, sometimes in large numbers. Let’s take a look at the...Read more
One, two, three: ¡Fiesta!
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August 21, 2019
On August 24 and 25, the Insectarium team invites the entire family to an exceptionnal event. Get out the drums and the trumpets, coz it’s party time...Read more
Let’s leave the monarchs in their habitat
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August 19, 2019
Monarchs are sometimes collected in their natural habitat so that they can be reared in captivity. A number of breeders want to help the endangered...Read more
