Tracking Migration

• Historic Migration Maps: Spring Migration (1997 - present)
• Pre-Migration Map: Getting Ready for the Migration
• Slideshow: Citizen Science
• Slideshow: Spring Migration Begins: A Race Against Time
• Slideshow: A New Generation: The Cycle of Life Continues
• Slideshow: From Eggs to Butterflies: How Population Grow?
• Slideshow: Do You Know a Monarch When You See One?
• Identification:Look, Measure, Draw, Describe
• Identification: Can You Tell a Viceroy from a Monarch?
• Identification: A Case of Mistaken Identity?
• Observations:Monarch Butterfly Migration Checklist
• Observations:Monitoring Monarch Habitat While You Wait
• Predicting the Monarch's Spring Migration Route
• Slideshow: How Do Monarchs Find Milkweed?
• What Does Spring Migration Look Like?
• Thinking Carefully About Methods

Looking at Migration Patterns

• Analyze Data: Where is Spring Breeding Habitat Critical?
• Analyzing Migration Maps: Watch Your Language!
• Slideshow: Predicting Patterns of Migration
• Spring Migration and March Temperatures: Are they related?
• Spring Recolonization of North America
• All Monarchs Do Not Go to Mexico for the Winter
• When Do Monarchs Normally Arrive in Your Home Town?
• How Far From Mexico Did This Butterfly Fly?
• Analyzing Migration Patterns: The Monarch's Journey NORTH?
• What if That Monarch Had Flown Due North?
• How Far North Do Monarchs Migrate?
• Which Generation Migrates to Mexico in the Fall?

Dealing With Unexpected Findings

• Monarch on the Move or Mistaken Sighting?
• Can You Solve the Migration Mystery in California?
• Early Illinois Sighting Raises Questions
• How do you explain the early monarch in Massachusetts?
• First Monarch in Maine? Verifying Data Behind the Scenes
• Local or Migratory Butterflies? Looking for Evidence
• New Butterfly or Old? Wing-wear Quiz
• Population Centers and Monarch Sightings Correlated?
• Time to Revisit Views About Monarch Migration?

Comparing Monarchs and Other Migratory Species

• Slideshow: Nectar-fueled Migration: A Bird and a Butterfly
• Songbirds Fly Under Night-time Skies--Do Monarchs?

Journey North in the Classroom

• Keep a Migration Journal
• How is a Vacation Like a Migration?
• Story of a Life's Journey
• Monarchs in the News: Write a Migration Column
• Migration Updates for Students in Mexico's Sanctuary Region
• Challenge Questions: A Central Tool for Student Learning

Life Cycle

Annual Cycle

Annual Cycle