Monarch Sanctuaries History: The Unexpected Truth from a Local
What do we know about the Monarch Sanctuaries History? There is only a very limited amount of Sanctuaries devoted to the arrival of the Monarch Butterflies into Mexico. The highlands offer a chill, fresh environment for the monarchs to hibernate. Their journey from Canada takes hundreds of miles and many, many months across the vast […]
Monarch Butterflies 2020: Revealing Coronavirus Times in Michoacan
Monarch Butterflies 2020: El Rosario Sanctuary in Michoacan You may remember last year I posted about my first journey to El Rosario Butterfly Sanctuary in Michoacan, Mexico. This year was clearly very different in Covid times and I kept a watch on the news in the weeks before we went, mostly to find out […]
Monarch Migration 2019: Record Breaking Numbers in Mexico!!
Monarch Migration Watch: Last month we shared about how Monarch Butterflies have been migrating south in record numbers but in reality that was just an estimate based on satellite images while they travel. The true test of whether or not the Monarchs were arriving in record numbers depends on how much end up at the […]