Why save the monarch butterfly?
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July 31, 2024
Across North America, considerable resources are being invested in protecting the monarch butterfly, the migratory populations of which have dropped...Read more
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Five animal species to discover this summer in Québec
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July 12, 2021
Summer is what’s going on outside! Haven’t you noticed that nature is everywhere? If you haven’t, all it takes is to alert your senses and direct...Read more
How to create a monarch habitat
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May 26, 2021
These days a lot of us are searching through nurseries and garden centers to prepare a piece of green paradise for the months ahead. Some gardens are...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
Monarchs and milkweed, a complex relationship
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July 1, 2020
The monarch butterfly depends on milkweed to survive, the plant being the caterpillars’ only food source. It’s a system that seems really simple ‒...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
What’s going on out west?
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February 26, 2020
When we talk about the monarch butterfly, we’re generally referring to the “eastern population,” which stretches, in Canada, from the eastern Rockies...Read more
Two invasive plants mean two more threats to the monarch butterfly
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July 21, 2016
Those threatening plants are vines with pale or dark mauve star-shaped flowers and are known as black swallowwort and European swallowwort; in Latin...Read more
