Join Interpretive Naturalist Jamie Little for a presentation on how you can help Idaho’s state insect, the Monarch butterfly. We will take a look at reasons for the dramatic decline of Western Monarchs and share how you can help in your backyard. Learn about insect metamorphosis, Monarch adaptations for survival, the amazing Monarch migration, and their connection to milkweed plants. Learn about Monarch tagging and how it helped to make an amazing discovery. Discover how to tell a Monarch from a Viceroy. We will review highlights of Monarch sightings in 2022 in Idaho and citizen science opportunities. Find out how many Monarchs Jamie sighted on visits to area parks this year. Showy Milkweed seed packet for planting at your site and instructions provided. The presentation is one hour in length, designed for grades 6-12.

Fee is $100 for a classroom of up to 35 students.

This Monarch presentation supports the following Idaho Content Standards for Science:

Idaho Content Standards for Science                                                             January 3, 2022

Middle School grades 6,7,8

MS-LS-2.1 Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Analyze and interpret data to provide evidence for the effects of resource availability on organisms and populations of organisms in an ecosystem.

MS-LS-2.5 Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Construct an argument supported by evidence that changes to physical or biological components of an ecosystem affect populations.

High School Grades 9-12

HS-LS-2.6 Students who demonstrate understanding can:

Design, evaluate, and/or refine practices used to manage a natural resource based on direct and indirect influences of human activities on biodiversity and ecosystem health.