MexicanNewsDaily https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/monarch-butterflies-not-alone-dragonflies-too-make-long-journey-to-mexico/

Some can travel as far as 14,000 kilometers

Journal of Experimental Biology https://jeb.biologists.org/content/222/22/jeb217513

Kathryn Knight Journal of Experimental Biology A monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) caterpillar feeding on milkweed. Photo credit: Jayne Yack.

Science https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2019/10/how-monarch-butterfly-evolved-its-resistance-toxic-milkweed?utm_campaign=news_daily_2019-10-02&et_rid=389253831&et_cid=3013912

“They are impressive pieces of research,” says Marcus Kronforst, an …

Wisconsin Gazette http://www.wisconsingazette.com/news/report-million-acres-of-monarch-habitat-to-be-doused-with/article_a3b7d956-1e35-11e8-aad2-dfa1667caa31.html Monarch populations have fallen 80 percent in the past two decades due to escalating …

Greetings from Auckland, New Zealand.

I have been involved with monarch butterflies for over 40 years. Each year I take eggs or larvae into a netted area and release the adults, affording them protection from (mainly) social wasps. I founded the …

Smithonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-monarch-butterflies-arent-getting-endangered-species-status-180976586/

New Hampshire New Leader https://www.unionleader.com/news/environment/tiny-transmitters-can-track-migration-of-monarch-butterflies/article_824946bc-47b8-5f66-93aa-bf399820e460.html

Smithsonian https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/hand-reared-monarch-butterflies-are-weaker-their-wild-cousins-180974643/

Every fall, America’s eastern monarch butterflies migrate up to 3,000 miles from their northeastern homes to the …

ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/07/190708112443.htm

Source:

University of Guelph

Summary:

Researchers equipped monarch butterflies and green darner dragonflies with radio transmitters and tracked them through southern Ontario and …