{"id":170853,"date":"2025-09-21T01:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170853\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T01:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T01:36:08","slug":"local-landowners-asked-to-assist-with-monarch-migration-researc-kcii-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/170853\/","title":{"rendered":"Local Landowners Asked to Assist with Monarch Migration Researc | KCII Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n         <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1925\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/4819437346845045241.webp.webp\" class=\"alignleft full-img-class wp-post-image\" alt=\"4819437346845045241\" wpb-att-id=\"391249\" wpb-att-extension=\"jpeg\" data-wpbsize=\"full\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The annual monarch migration toward Mexico for the winter has begun to pass through the Hawkeye State, and the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium at Iowa State University is asking local landowners for assistance with their research.<\/p>\n<p>Iowa is a key region in the monarchs\u2019 annual migration patterns, according to Mykayla Hagaman, program specialist with the consortium, \u201cIowa is a core monarch habitat breeding area in the summer, so a lot of monarchs that make it down to Mexico come from Iowa. Also, Iowa is in the core migration zone, so there are a lot of monarchs funneling through Iowa, so we provide a lot of that roosting habitat and a lot of that fuel and native nectar plants.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Monarch populations have declined in recent years, making identifying and researching broods important for local ecosystems. Last year\u2019s numbers showed promise, with monarchs covering 4.4 acres of land in Mexico, more than double 2023\u2019s numbers, but that number is still less than a third of the 15 acres they would need to cover to be considered sustainable.<\/p>\n<p>Landowners are asked to report any monarch broods they find. Often gathering on trees, windbreaks or river corridors, broods consist of dozens to hundreds of monarchs and are generally found in the mornings and evenings rather than the heat of the day.<\/p>\n<p>Broods can be reported through a form on the consortium\u2019s website or by contacting Katherine Kral-O\u2019Brien at 515-294-7315 or kralob@iastate.edu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The annual monarch migration toward Mexico for the winter has begun to pass through the Hawkeye State, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":{"0":"post-170853","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-wildlife"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170853"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170853\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}