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A long-term study offers new insights on how monarch butterflies are doing as they journey through the state, based on research by Iowa State University and the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The research provides evidence that reduced

AMES, Iowa — Iowa Learning Farms will host a bioreactor and monarch habitat field day on Thursday, Aug. 29, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at Rob Stout’s farm near Washington.

AMES, Iowa – HabiTally, a new mobile app designed to improve data collection about pollinator habitats, was launched today.

Iowa Learning Farms, in partnership with Iowa State University Extension and Outreach, and ISU Research and Demonstration Farms, will host a conservation practice showcase field day on Thursday, Aug. 8 from 6-8 p.m.

by Brooklyn Synder

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.

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

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.

By Darcy Dougherty Maulsby

By Dana Schweitzer

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