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Listen "Ep. 63: Creating Quail Habitat and Saving Monarch Butterflies"
Episode Synopsis
Quail Forever is part of a collaborative called Missourians for Monarch which is focused on creating pollinator habitat for a wide range of wildlife species. Host Bob St.Pierre is joined by Kelly Srigley-Werner, U.S. Fish & Wildlife private land coordinator in Missouri; Donnamarie Duffin, Missourians for Monarchs coordinator, and Kim Cole, Quail Forever education & outreach program coordinator to talk about the habitat connections and conservation efforts linking bobwhite quail and monarch butterflies.
Episode highlights include:
· The monarch butterfly’s fascinating life cycle spanning a multi-generational migration from Canada across the United States to Mexico.
· The importance of Missouri as the geographic center of the monarch’s migration.
· The 45-member Missourians for Monarchs partnership work to improve almost 400,000 acres for monarchs, and in turn quail, in just five years.
· How drones are being developed to count the critically important milkweed stem-by-stem to ensure healthy monarch populatons.
· And speed-dating for conservation . . .
Episode highlights include:
· The monarch butterfly’s fascinating life cycle spanning a multi-generational migration from Canada across the United States to Mexico.
· The importance of Missouri as the geographic center of the monarch’s migration.
· The 45-member Missourians for Monarchs partnership work to improve almost 400,000 acres for monarchs, and in turn quail, in just five years.
· How drones are being developed to count the critically important milkweed stem-by-stem to ensure healthy monarch populatons.
· And speed-dating for conservation . . .
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