People making Mission Monarch shine!
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October 8, 2025
At Espace pour la vie, it’s part of our DNA to celebrate involvement in community-science projects like Mission Monarch. In this article we yield the...Read more
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Five reasons for mapping the monarch’s breeding grounds
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July 9, 2025
We sometimes hear criticisms about the relevance of Mission Monarch , our participatory science program that maps the monarch butterfly’s breeding...Read more
Mission Monarch and the fight against nature-deficit disorder
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September 25, 2024
Over the last thirty years, children have been spending less time outdoors, resulting in the appearance of what American journalist Richard Louv has...Read more
The top 5 species most confused with the monarch
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July 19, 2023
Every year we impatiently look forward to this moment: the arrival of the majestic monarch butterfly. But did you know that there are a number of...Read more
Community science: hitting three targets with one stone
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May 2, 2023
Community science is gaining in popularity! The number of scientific projects allowing anyone at all to get involved has exploded in the last few...Read more
What happens when a monarch skips a meal?
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May 25, 2022
The monarch butterfly caterpillar has a voracious appetite. It feeds exclusively on its host plant, milkweed, which it devours at an astonishing clip...Read more
Are western monarch butterfly populationy endangered?
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February 26, 2020
When we talk about the monarch butterfly, we’re generally referring to the “eastern population,” which stretches, in Canada, from the eastern Rockies...Read more
When monarchs roost
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October 9, 2019
It’s autumn, and monarchs are gradually heading south. During their migration they make stops, sometimes in large numbers. Let’s take a look at the...Read more
Let’s leave the monarchs in their habitat
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August 19, 2019
Monarchs are sometimes collected in their natural habitat so that they can be reared in captivity. A number of breeders want to help the endangered...Read more
A tri-national blitz for the monarch
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July 19, 2017
The goal of the International Monarch Monitoring Blitz? To take a simultaneous image of the state of monarch populations in Canada. This year, two...Read more
