REPORTS OF MONARCHS WINTERING IN THE SOUTHEST NEEDED
backyardwildlifeconnection by Terry W.Johnson
For unknown reasons, in recent years thousands of monarch butterflies have been found overwintering throughout the Southeast In an effort to learn more about this phenomena, a consortium of universities, state wildlife agencies such as the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, and other conservation groups like Monarchs over Georgia have banded together to form an organization called Monarch Overwintering in the Southeastern United States or MOVERS. The group is requesting the public’s involvement in reporting sightings monarch in the Southeast during the winter.
One of the goals of MOVERS is to determine how monarchs that over winter as adults in the Southeast affect future the size of future monarch populations. The study also hopes to document how winter breeding in the Southeast might affect the monarch’s annual migration to Mexico.
If you would like to take part in the effort to document monarchs in the Southeast this winter, contact journeynorth.org/surveys or www.inaturalist.org.
