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28th Annual Symbolic Monarch Migration to Mexico with Bee City USA – Hendersonville

Hendersonville, NC 95 Upper Red Oak Trail, Hendersonville, NC, United States

From the Hendersonville area, the monarch migration is an epic journey to Mexico covering at least 2,000 miles. Like clockwork, the first migrating monarchs typically reach their over-wintering habitats high in the mountains of central Mexico by the first of November. To celebrate this amazing feat, more than 10,000 children from across the United States …

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In the Life of Western Monarchs: A Community Science Approach to Conservation

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This event will be recorded and posted to: The Xerces YouTube Channel Join Isis Howard, Endangered Species Conservation Biologist with the Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation, to talk about the powerful ways community science is shaping the conservation of western monarch butterflies. From surveying monarchs and their milkweed host plants in the summer to counting butterflies …

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In the Life of Monarchs East of the Rockies: Biology and the Great Migration

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This event will be recorded and posted to: The Xerces Youtube Channel Dr. Ray Moranz will begin by presenting on the basic aspects of monarch biology, including the life cycle, the use for milkweeds as host plant, the incorporation of cardiac glycosides as a chemical defense, and the vulnerability of this species to various predators, parasites, …

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