2020 International Monarch Monitoring Blitz (July 24-Aug 2)

Join us and thousands of volunteers across North America from July 24 – August 2, 2020 for the 4th annual International Monarch Monitoring Blitz (the Blitz). To participate, simply go out and look for and report milkweed plants and all life stages of monarch butterflies (monarch eggs, caterpillars, pupae, and adults). To take part in the Blitz, submit your data to the program associated with your location:

–Canada: Mission Monarch

–United States:
--East of the Rocky Mountains: Monarch Larva Monitoring Project
--West of the Rocky Mountains: Western Monarch and Milkweed Mapper

–Mexico: Naturalista website

For this year’s Blitz, we feel compelled to underline that your well-being, and that of those around you, comes first. Before participating in any activities, please look up and carefully follow the health and safety measures for COVID-19 recommended by the authorities in your region.

Read more about the Blitz here.
http://www.namonarchs.org/international-monarch-monitoring-blitz/

Use the hashtag #MonarchBlitz to share your observations and connect with other volunteers.

Posted on July 20, 2020 07:59 PM by smcknight smcknight

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The instructions say:
"For one week, the Blitz invites people across North America to look for milkweed plants and survey them for monarch eggs, caterpillars, chrysalises and butterflies. "

Are you only supposed to report Monarchs seen on or close to milkweed plants, or should you also include Monarchs seen without any milkweed close by?

Posted by sarabseth over 3 years ago

Thanks for this question. Yes, the blitz is a time to submit any and all monarch and milkweed observations. This includes adult monarchs that may not be close to milkweed.

Posted by smcknight over 3 years ago

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