Monarch Joint Venture Blog
Tagging monarchs, planting hope: NIPSCO supports conservation across Northern Indiana
Earlier this fall, the Monarch Joint Venture teamed up again with volunteers from NIPSCO to catch, tag, and release monarch butterflies. The tags used were from the Monarch Watch tagging program, a large-scale community science project initiated in 1992 to help understand the dynamics of the monarch's spectacular fall migration through mark-and-recapture. Read More
CPKC supports MJV in restoring habitat and expanding education access
A new grant from Canadian Pacific Kansas City will help the Monarch Joint Venture expand pollinator conservation efforts by enhancing habitat restoration, translating educational resources into Spanish, and increasing community engagement opportunities that benefit monarchs and other pollinators. Read More
MJV elevates pollinator habitat monitoring through drone surveys and trainings
Monarch Joint Venture is using drones to elevate how it and other conservation organizations monitor pollinator habitat. Read More
10 of Habitat Manager Jake Koenig's favorite fall blooms
Fall-blooming flowers give us one last hurrah before temperatures drop and we settle in for winter, but they also provide important nectar for monarchs making the trip south. When you're thinking about what you want your garden or habitat space to look like at this time next year, consider adding some of these flowers. Read More
Strong end to monarch breeding season; leading edge of migration reaches Oklahoma
Journey North volunteers have reported monarch roosts as far as Kansas and Oklahoma, and Dr. Karen Oberhauser writes that monarch observers with the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project reported monarchs in good numbers throughout August and into September. Read More