{"id":356901,"date":"2026-09-25T18:02:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356901\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T18:02:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T18:02:09","slug":"new-bluetooth-technology-tracks-monarch-butterflies-to-manhattan-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/356901\/","title":{"rendered":"New bluetooth technology tracks monarch butterflies to Manhattan and beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">New technology utilizing bluetooth is helping naturalists track monarch butterfly migratory paths from southern New Brunswick. In previous years, the task of following the migratory paths of monarch butterflies all the way to Mexico depended far more on luck, as it required tagged butterflies to be recaught en route. However, thanks to the <a href=\"https:\/\/projectmonarch.org\/app\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/projectmonarch.org\/app\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Project Monarch app<\/a>, tagged monarchs can be identified remotely within 100 metres of the butterfly, without any need to delay its migration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/Naturenb.ca\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"Naturenb.ca\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Nature NB<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/saintjohnnaturalistsclub.org\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"saintjohnnaturalistsclub.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Saint John Naturalists Club<\/a> have tagged a total of 22 monarch butterflies from the Point Lepreau Bird Observatory on the Fundy coast with the new tags this year, and are already learning important information about their migratory paths. Local 107.3FM spoke with programme coordinator with NB Nature, Francie Morgan about the process of tagging the monarchs and the scope of their epic annual journeys.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New technology utilizing bluetooth is helping naturalists track monarch butterfly migratory paths from southern New Brunswick. In previous&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356902,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-356901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}