Monarch Butterflies in the Pacific Northwest Tagging Project
Les monarques du Pacifique Nord-Ouest
Country
United States
Region
Pacifique
Agency Type
University
Target or Affiliated Species or Habitat
Monarques
Original Language
English
This western monarch monitoring project raises monarchs and tags and releases them, with help from prison inmates. The monarchs are released in Northern Washington, and the goal is to track their migration patterns south to determine which overwintering sites western monarchs migrate to and how they reach them. People can report sightings of tagged monarchs to Washington State University (WSU) to contribute to this research (James 2016; WSU 2012; WSU 2014).
- James, D. 2016. Monarch Butterflies in the Pacific Northwest. facebook.com/MonarchButterfliesInThePacificNorthwest.
- Washington State University (WSU). 2012. WSU Monarch Butterfly Project Underway with Help from Washington State Penitentiary Offenders. 2 July 2012. http://cahnrs.wsu.edu/news-release/2012/07/02/wsu-monarch-butterfly-project-underway-with-help-from-washington-state-penitentiary-offenders/.
- Washington State University (WSU). 2014. Wanted: Monarch Butterflies, Last Seen Heading South. 11 September 2014. http://cahnrs.wsu.edu/news-release/2014/09/11/wanted-monarch-butterflies-last-seen-heading-south/.