Episode 0504: Monarch Watch

Uncovering Kansas

Monarch Watch is an internationally reaching education, conservation, and research organization dedicated to the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migration based right here in Kansas. Join Rachel in this episode where co-founder Chip Taylor takes Rachel to butterfly school.

Monarch Watch website

Monarch Watch Facebook page

Kansas Eco Regions

What You’ll Learn in this Episode

• What is Monarch Watch?
• What is Butterfly Tagging?
• How Monarch Butterflies migrate
• Why Mexico is important to the Monarch Tagging process
• What makes the monarch butterfly migration unique
• Why milkweed is important to monarch butterflies
• Why it is important to plan native milkweed
• What is the monarch watch program?
• What is the Bring Back the Monarchs program?
• Why nectar and pollen are important to monarch butterflies
• Why it is important to have everyday people involved in citizen science

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