Results of category Monarch Butterflies Reports of Valley Monarch Population
Common Milkweed in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia
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Milkweed is the larval food of the Monarch butterfly which is endangered in Nova Scotia. It is of valuable to know where patches of it are located to inspect during the breeding season for larva and eggs. These early stages of the Monarch can then be protected from predators and reared to increase...
eButterfly and Mission Monarch
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eButterfly is a website to post observations of butterflies. It was used during the Maritime Butterfly Atlas to collect observations from field observers. Now eButterfly is partnering with several other butterfly conservation groups to create a site called Mission Monarch to report...
Video on Monarch Habitat -" A Field for Monarch" by Jerry Lockett
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Video of a Monarch Habitat
2024 Monarch Report
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2024 Monarch Butterfly Population Report - Brooklyn Street Field
Published on Oct 16, 2024
2024 was an average year for the Monarch population coming from out field milkweed. It was better that 2023, but not as good as the great years of 2021 and 22. We saw varying numbers in our 2 hectare field...
2023 Monarch Report
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2023 Report of Monarch Butterflies - Nova Scotia
Published on Sep 17, 2023
The year 2023 had a slow start for Monarchs in Nova Scotia, probably due to the cool weather of the late spring and early summer. Very few Monarch had made it to province before mid-July. We saw the first Monarch in our...
2022 Monarch Report
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2022 Monarch Report - Annapolis Valley
Published on Aug 17, 2022
2022 was a very good year for Monarch breeding in the Annapolis Valley. The following information is for just the Common milkweed field (2 ha) in Brooklyn Corner, N.S. Other people in the Annapolis Valley are also seeing good...
2021 Monarch Report
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2021 Monarch Report - Annapolis Valley
Published on Jul 15, 2021
The first Monarch butterflies arrived in our field of milkweed in 2021 on the 6th of June. Not only were they early, there were three of them at the beginng. Soon more joined them and by the 18th we found our first egg in the field....
2020 Monarch Report
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2020 Summary of Monarch Surveys - Annapolis Valley
Published on Aug 3, 2020
In 2020 the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz occured from July 24 to August 2. This is not the end of the Monarch monitoring for 2020 but the results will give you an idea of the progress of the Monarch breeding this...