Monarch Larva Monitoring Training
We are fortunate to have a new member, Sarah Dalton, who is our new Citizen Science Chair. Sarah is a regional expert and trainer for the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project. Sarah,?along with our?President of Wild Ones Columbus, Barbara Velez Barbosa, will offer an afternoon of training to teach citizens how to monitor Monarch larva.
The Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP) is a citizen science project involving volunteers from across the United States and Canada in monarch research. It was developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota to collect long-term data on larval monarch populations and milkweed habitat. The overarching goal of the project is to better understand how and why monarch populations vary in time and space, with a focus on monarch distribution and abundance during the breeding season in North America.
RSVP by June 13, 2015?to?Barbara Velez Barbosa at?[email protected]