Texas Monarch Monitoring Project Training
Sep 17, 2010
Friday AND Saturday, September 17 and 18. 9 AM - 4 PM on Friday and Saturday.
Program co-sponsored by: USFWS - National Wildlife Refuge System, Texas Parks & Wildlife, and Monarch Joint Venture. This workshop is designed to train volunteers to aid scientists as part of the Monarch Larval Monitoring Project, Monarch Watch and Journey North. The monarch's overwintering population in Mexico is the lowest ever recorded, and the butterfly was recently added to the World Wildlife Fund's Top 10 Most Threatened Species List. The workshop will instruct teachers, youth leaders, citizen scientists and park naturalists across the state on how to monitor monarchs at their local sites. Participants will learn how to mark migrating monarchs with paper tags, examine milkweed for monarch larvae and collaborate with international monarch research.
The monarch is probably the best known of all North American butterflies. It is famous for its mass migration south for the winter, where populations will overwinter in various sites in Mexico and southern California.
Cost: $30 per person. Approved credit for Texas Master Naturalists. Contact 830.249.4616 for registration or e-mail nature@cibolo.org.
Time: 2:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Location: CNC Auditorium and Park
