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How to Be Involved in the Monarch Listing Decision

January 7, 2025

With the recent proposal for listing the monarch as a threatened species, now is a crucial time for public involvement. Learn more about how you can be involved in the listing decision making process.
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Krishnan attends ComSciCon 2019

July 24, 2019

Niranjana Krishnan is a Ph.D. candidate in Toxicology at Iowa State with a B.S. in microbiology and M.S. in biomedical genetics.

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Despite delays, monarch conservation efforts continue in Iowa

July 18, 2019
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Monarch intern: Brooklyn Snyder

July 9, 2019

Brooklyn Snyder is an undergraduate research intern with the ISU Monarch Research Team. Snyder, a native of Ankeny, Iowa, recently spent a semester studying in Hawaii.

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RECAP: Pollinator habitat field tour near Rockford

June 21, 2019

by Brooklyn Synder

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Attend field days during Pollinator Week June 17-23

June 11, 2019

Pheasants Forever is partnering with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach and the ISU Extension and Outreach Buchanan County office in northeast Iowa, to offer field days and other educational events during National Pollinator Week.
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Iowa pork producers collaborate with ISU researchers to benefit pollinators

May 29, 2019

IPPA collaborating on monarch habitat
Iowa’s pig farmers are collaborating with Iowa State University on a research project to discover ways to provide more habitat for monarch butterflies.

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As monarchs migrate northward, experts ask Iowans to keep habitat in mind

May 4, 2019

AMES, Iowa – Monarch butterflies are fluttering this way, and, with some luck, they’ll be more plentiful than in previous years when they reach Iowa later this spring.

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Highlighting Iowa's "Butterfly Heroes" for Earth Day

April 22, 2019

Butterfly Heroes How farmers, zoos and you can protect pollinators
By Darcy Dougherty Maulsby

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2019 Curtiss League Kick-Off highlights conservation

April 4, 2019

Departments of Entomology and Natural Resource Ecology and Management host CALS young alums
By Dana Schweitzer

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Spring migration of monarch butterflies reaches Texas

March 21, 2019

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Monarch intern: Amanda Kiehl

February 25, 2019

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APPLY NOW: Monarch student research technicians

February 12, 2019

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New monarch numbers encouraging: Conservation efforts in Iowa contribute to long-term recovery

February 1, 2019

AMES, Iowa — This week, the World Wildlife Fund released its 2018-2019 overwintering monarch population report.
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Monarch intern: Melanie Aust

January 17, 2019

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New research examines herbicide effects on common milkweed

December 20, 2018

Wondering how herbicide affects milkweed? Does it die, do females still lay eggs on it, and do caterpillars thrive?

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Iowa partners attend national monarch conservation meeting

November 29, 2018

More than a dozen member organizations of the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium are representing Iowa at an event hosted by Monarch Joint Venture and the Midwest Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies in Nebraska City, NE.

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Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy Updated with Best Management Practices

October 22, 2018

The Iowa Monarch Conservation Strategy now includes best management practices to guide Iowans in helping to increase monarch butterfly habitat.

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Monarch intern: Jacob Handel

October 17, 2018

Jacob Handel (far left) is an undergraduate research assistant with the ISU monarch butterfly research team.

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New field research adds insight about nine native milkweed species

October 10, 2018

The eastern population of monarch butterflies has declined significantly over the past 20 years. As the figure here illustrates, Iowa is in the heart of the summer breeding range for this iconic insect.

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RECAP: Madison County monarch field day

September 27, 2018

Madison County landowners Don Eyerly and J.D. Schruers hosted field day participants on Sept. 26 for a tour of pollinator habitat plantings near Winterset, Iowa.

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