#insectsaturday — Public Fediverse posts

📰 Forest Restoration Efforts Help Monarchs Hold Their Ground

🌎 Mexico: New monitoring data indicate that eastern monarch butterfly populations increased for a second consecutive year in their Mexican wintering grounds.

🦋 Researchers reported larger areas of monarch-covered forest compared with the two previous years, suggesting a period of relative stability after long declines.

🔬 Habitat restoration efforts, including milkweed plantings across North America, are helping monarchs persist despite ongoing pressures.

🔗 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery

#InsectSaturday #Monarchs #HabitatRestoration #Pollinators #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration

📰 Forest Restoration Efforts Help Monarchs Hold Their Ground

🌎 Mexico: New monitoring data indicate that eastern monarch butterfly populations increased for a second consecutive year in their Mexican wintering grounds.

🦋 Researchers reported larger areas of monarch-covered forest compared with the two previous years, suggesting a period of relative stability after long declines.

🔬 Habitat restoration efforts, including milkweed plantings across North America, are helping monarchs persist despite ongoing pressures.

🔗 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery

#InsectSaturday #Monarchs #HabitatRestoration #Pollinators #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration

📰 Forest Restoration Efforts Help Monarchs Hold Their Ground

🌎 Mexico: New monitoring data indicate that eastern monarch butterfly populations increased for a second consecutive year in their Mexican wintering grounds.

🦋 Researchers reported larger areas of monarch-covered forest compared with the two previous years, suggesting a period of relative stability after long declines.

🔬 Habitat restoration efforts, including milkweed plantings across North America, are helping monarchs persist despite ongoing pressures.

🔗 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery

#InsectSaturday #Monarchs #HabitatRestoration #Pollinators #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration

📰 Forest Restoration Efforts Help Monarchs Hold Their Ground

🌎 Mexico: New monitoring data indicate that eastern monarch butterfly populations increased for a second consecutive year in their Mexican wintering grounds.

🦋 Researchers reported larger areas of monarch-covered forest compared with the two previous years, suggesting a period of relative stability after long declines.

🔬 Habitat restoration efforts, including milkweed plantings across North America, are helping monarchs persist despite ongoing pressures.

🔗 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery

#InsectSaturday #Monarchs #HabitatRestoration #Pollinators #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration

📰 Forest Restoration Efforts Help Monarchs Hold Their Ground

🌎 Mexico: New monitoring data indicate that eastern monarch butterfly populations increased for a second consecutive year in their Mexican wintering grounds.

🦋 Researchers reported larger areas of monarch-covered forest compared with the two previous years, suggesting a period of relative stability after long declines.

🔬 Habitat restoration efforts, including milkweed plantings across North America, are helping monarchs persist despite ongoing pressures.

🔗 https://e360.yale.edu/digest/monarch-butterfly-recovery

#InsectSaturday #Monarchs #HabitatRestoration #Pollinators #Conservation #EcologicalRestoration

🪰 This very small fly landed on my finger last summer. Look at the bands on its tiny, tiny wings.

📷 Pic is a little blurry (had to use one hand quickly to get the shot), but it looks like a "biting midge" (Culicoides spp.). They need a better publicist, evidently.

🍂 It's one of a population in the thick layer of decaying leaves being used as a natural mulch nearby. Bugs like these are what Brown Thrashers and other birds are after when they are looking through leaves for food. We can support declining bird populations by just keeping leaves on the ground or as mulch in beds.

#InsectSaturday #HabitatGardening #Gardening #SolarPunk #BiodiversityGardening #Thrutopia