Monarch Research Project
Please save the dates: Monarch/Pollinator Forum will be held on June 14 and the Linn Landowner Forum will be on October 11.
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The City of Cedar Rapids offers several incentives that can reduce your stormwater utility fee! Residents of Cedar Rapids are eligible to participate in the City’s Stormwater Best Management Practices (BMPs) Cost-Share Program. The program provides property owners financial and technical assistance to implement BMPs, improving water quality and reducing stormwater runoff quantity. Financial assistance…
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The Monarch Research Project sends a big THANK YOU to Cedar Rapids Bank & Trust for supporting our seed give aways this fall. Attendees at our recent Linn Landowner Forum received seed packets containing a special Linn County Pollinator seed mix to start a 400-square-foot prairie plot. The seed mix was developed with plants native…
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Ella and the Monarch Meet Ella. She had a goal to release 100 monarchs this season and she just released her 100th monarch! Ella’s family has been rearing monarchs in a 6×6 Monarch BioTent™ for awhile and Ella enjoyed it so much, she decided to get her own tent. She earned the money to buy…
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It’s that time of year! If you’ve sent your last monarchs on their way and you are ready to dismantle your 6×6 Monarch Biotent™ our own Mike Martin is here to help you out!
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The following post is shared from the Linn County News feed posted on August 29, 2019. Linn County Conservation presented with 2019 Excellence in Action award from ISAC The Linn County 1,000 Acres Pollinator Initiative is a recipient of the 2019 Iowa State Association of Counties (ISAC) Excellence in Action Award. The Excellence in Action…
read moreUpdate of a Monarch 6×6 BioTent on a naturally growing plot of milkweed stocked by wild OE free adult butterflies. We are conducting research to compare the success of monarchs reared in the tent to that of nature here in Iowa.
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Guest post by Jabe Gonder, MRS Summer Research Intern. 6×6 milkweed plot is prepared for a BioTent This summer’s research is in full swing headed into the second week of July. We are continuing the experimentation of “One and Done”—Rearing Monarch Butterflies on the Wild Side— at our research station. Beginning in early June, the…
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Orlan Love in the Orlan Love Prairie, Squaw Creek State Park. On Tuesday, June 24 a 6.6 acre pollinator prairie within Linn County’s Squaw Creek State Park was formally dedicated as the Orlan Love Prairie. The name honors Orlan Love, a writer and columnist at the Cedar Rapids Gazette. Tributes, news, and remarks by Orlan…
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Kallie is hard at work at the MRS testing for OE: Ophryocystis elektroscirrha, a single celled parasite that infects monarchs. We test every monarch in the station. Kallie tests adult monarchs (it’s not possible to test caterpillars for the disease); she’s looking for microscopic spores on the abdomen of the butterfly. Any monarchs found with…
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