Butterfly Pavilion Releases Nine Years of Butterfly Monitoring Data Showing Monarch Butterfly Momentum Increasing in Colorado
WESTMINSTER, Colo., Feb. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Butterfly Pavilion released the 9th Annual Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network (CBMN) Report on the state of Colorado native butterfly populations, revealing heightened sightings and reporting of Monarch Butterflies throughout Colorado.
- WESTMINSTER, Colo., Feb. 1, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Today, Butterfly Pavilion released the 9th Annual Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network (CBMN) Report on the state of Colorado native butterfly populations, revealing heightened sightings and reporting of Monarch Butterflies throughout Colorado.
- Since its inception in 2013, CBMN, the nation's fastest-growing butterfly monitoring program, has recorded 107,811 individual butterflies and logged 3,166 butterfly surveys, accounting for 3,795 hours of volunteer monitoring through 2021.
- "While we've got a lot of great data, we still need more," said Shiran Hershcovich, Lepidopterist Manager, Butterfly Pavilion.
- Beyond Colorado and the United States, Butterfly Pavilion conservationists are doing important invertebrate research projects around the world from Mongolia and Saudi Arabia to Peru and Indonesia.