{"id":393,"date":"2022-01-12T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-12T01:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/?p=393"},"modified":"2022-08-02T00:14:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-02T00:14:08","slug":"more-on-monarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/2022\/01\/12\/more-on-monarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"More on Monarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Monarch season is over. The last straggler I spotted in my yard was December 20, 2021, just before the first arctic blast that welcomed in 2022.&nbsp; I started tagging Monarchs in my urban yard in 1997.&nbsp; That year, in the month of October my daughters and I tagged 75 Monarchs. &nbsp;We have not seen numbers like this for a long time.&nbsp; I stopped tagging Monarchs in 2016 as there were so few Monarchs coming through my yard. &nbsp;We are on the western edge of the Monarch migration route and usually the main migration numbers pass east of us unless it is an unusual year weatherwise.&nbsp; But even so the numbers of Monarchs, I see has declined.&nbsp; &nbsp;Part of the reason may be the lack of habitat resources in urban yards.&nbsp; There are very few Monarch friendly yards around me and they are not connected.&nbsp; This year, however, we did tag about ten Monarchs in my yard during the month of September.&nbsp; &nbsp;Hopefully this may be the start of an upward trend!&nbsp; To learn more about Monarchs, check out <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.westtexasgardening.org\/post\/why-should-i-plant-natives-monarch-butterflies\" target=\"_blank\">this article I co-wrote<\/a> for our local newspapers and the Permian Basin Master Gardeners.&nbsp;  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monarch season is over. The last straggler I spotted in my yard was December 20, 2021, just before the first arctic blast that welcomed in 2022.&nbsp; I started tagging Monarchs in my urban yard in 1997.&nbsp; That year, in the month of October my daughters and I tagged 75 Monarchs. &nbsp;We have not seen numbers&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":397,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-observations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":460,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions\/460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emmysearth.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}