🪻The availability of milkweed patches and nectar sources in and around KC provides critical rest and refueling stops. KC efforts in tagging, outreach and conservation helps advance scientific understanding of migration, and enables the monarchs to successfully complete their journeys.

📍 This individual #monarch was photographed at Indiana Dunes. My hometown of Kansas City lies in a mid-latitude corridor through which these migrating monarchs flow. What happens locally, like habitat loss and using pesticides or creating habitat and providing food sources, can affect their passage.