Events

Monarch butterfly populations have been declining over the last 25 years—essentially the entire time that we’ve been monitoring them. It is important to move beyond documenting this decline, and toward responding to the challenge posed by monarch conservation and insect conservation in general. Karen Oberhauser, Director of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Arboretum and Professor in the Department of Entomology, will describe the amazing biology of migratory monarchs, how we can use data collected by scientists and public to understand what is driving monarch numbers, and what we can do with that information. Our conservation efforts need to take both basic biology and ongoing change into account, and the take-home message from this talk will be how we can address habitat conservation in the face of climate and other human-driven changes.