Get trained to help ID & count Monarchs & Karner blue butterflies

Get trained to help ID & count monarchs & Karner blue butterflies

 

Monarchs in the eastern migratory population that breeds in Wisconsin have plummeted about 80 percent in the last 20 years while endangered Karner blue butterflies are holding their own in Wisconsin but more information is needed on their populations. Get trained to help survey for them and conserve their populations.

 

HELP COUNT & CONSERVE BUTTERFLIES

Wisconsin plays an outsize role in safeguarding monarch butterflies and Karner blue butterflies and we need your help!

Sign up to learn how to survey for these two beautiful species to help document their locations and abundance. Your information will aid conservation efforts.

Learn more and register for the Integrated Monarch Monitoring Program

  • May 18, The Leopold Center, Baraboo, WI
  • June 5, Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, Necedah, WI

Learn more and register for Karner Blue Butterfly Monitoring

  • June 1, Black River DNR Service Center, 11-1 p.m.
  • June 8, Hartman Creek State Park, 1-3 p.m.
  • June 15, Wild Rose Fish Hatchery, 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
  • June 22, Sandhill Wildlife Area, 10 a.m.-noon