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WSU-Tagged Monarchs May Be Heading Your Way

Seen any tagged monarchs lately? If you live in California, tagged monarchs from the migratory research project of entomologist David James of...

A newly eclosed male monarch spreads its wings. In the back is a female. Both eclosed on Sept. 5 in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A newly eclosed male monarch spreads its wings. In the back is a female. Both eclosed on Sept. 5 in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed male monarch spreads its wings. In the back is a female. Both eclosed on Sept. 5 in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed female monarch clings to a tropical milkweed leaf before taking flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A newly eclosed female monarch clings to a tropical milkweed leaf before taking flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A newly eclosed female monarch clings to a tropical milkweed leaf before taking flight. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, September 11, 2023 at 4:43 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Yard & Garden

Three Key Dates to Add to Your Calendar

The Bohart Museum of Entomology at the University of California, Davis, has announced the themes of its fall open houses: Sunday, Aug. 27:...

A predator, a praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata limbata, waiting for prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A predator, a praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbata limbata, waiting for prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A predator, a praying mantis, Stagmomantis limbatalimbata, waiting for prey. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Gotcha! The praying mantis grabs a cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Gotcha! The praying mantis grabs a cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Gotcha! The praying mantis grabs a cabbage white butterfly. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The praying mantis is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
The praying mantis is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

The praying mantis is hungry. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It doesn't take long. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
It doesn't take long. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

It doesn't take long. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, August 14, 2023 at 4:22 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

Seen Any Dead Butterflies? USGS Survey Seeks Specimens in Six States

Have you seen any dead butterflies lately? If you live in Alabama,  Georgia, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma or Texas, the United States...

A monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus, nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in Vacaville, Calif. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A buckeye butterfly,  Junonia coenia, on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia, on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A buckeye butterfly, Junonia coenia, on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Monday, July 31, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

Ready for the 7th Annual International Monarch Monitoring Blitz?

Save the dates! The seventh annual International Monarch Monitoring Blitz will take place Friday, July 28 through Sunday, Aug. 6.  That's...

A monarch lifts off from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch lifts off from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch lifts off from a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is the monarch that citizen scientist Steven Johnson of Ashland, Ore., tagged Aug. 28, 2016. It arrived in Vacaville, 285 miles away, on Sept. 5, 2016. This was part of a migratory monarch project headed by David James, a Washington State University entomologist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
This is the monarch that citizen scientist Steven Johnson of Ashland, Ore., tagged Aug. 28, 2016. It arrived in Vacaville, 285 miles away, on Sept. 5, 2016. This was part of a migratory monarch project headed by David James, a Washington State University entomologist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

This is the monarch that citizen scientist Steven Johnson of Ashland, Ore., tagged Aug. 28, 2016. It arrived in Vacaville, 285 miles away, on Sept. 5, 2016. This was part of a migratory monarch project headed by David James, a Washington State University entomologist. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Wednesday, July 5, 2023 at 4:59 PM
Focus Area Tags: Agriculture, Economic Development, Environment, Innovation, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

Where Are All the Monarchs?

Where are all the monarchs? Not in our pollinator garden here in Vacaville. Milkweed? Check. Floral resources? Check. Praying mantids? No....

Do monarchs celebrate the Fourth of July? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
Do monarchs celebrate the Fourth of July? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Do monarchs celebrate the Fourth of July? (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)
A monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

A monarch nectaring on a Mexican sunflower, Tithonia rotundifola, in a Vacaville pollinator garden. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)

Posted on Tuesday, July 4, 2023 at 11:59 AM
Focus Area Tags: Environment, Natural Resources, Yard & Garden

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