Filtering by: monarch butterflies
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Travel with this amazing butterfly and trace its migration route to Mexico through fun activities, kid’s crafts and educational displays. See how monarchs are raised, tagged for tracking, and watch butterflies being released. Learn how you can help monarchs and other pollinators.
Learn more: https://fpdcc.com/event/migrating-monarchs-celebration/
From Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Travel with this amazing butterfly and trace its migration route to Mexico through fun activities, kid’s crafts and educational displays. See how monarchs are raised, tagged for tracking, and watch butterflies being released. Learn how you can help monarchs and other pollinators
From the Field Museum:
Be a part of groundbreaking science to show how YOUR milkweed is helping monarchs. If you have milkweed plants or are willing to plant them, please consider helping us measure the contribution of those plants to monarch conservation. This community science project is designed to be accessible to anyone, especially families and those new to community science.
Register: https://monarch-community-science-fieldmuseum.hub.arcgis.com/
Photoby K. DaPra
From the Field Museum:
Be a part of groundbreaking science to show how YOUR milkweed is helping monarchs. If you have milkweed plants or are willing to plant them, please consider helping us measure the contribution of those plants to monarch conservation. This community science project is designed to be accessible to anyone, especially families and those new to community science.
Register: https://monarch-community-science-fieldmuseum.hub.arcgis.com/
Photoby K. DaPra
From the Field Museum:
Be a part of groundbreaking science to show how YOUR milkweed is helping monarchs. If you have milkweed plants or are willing to plant them, please consider helping us measure the contribution of those plants to monarch conservation. This community science project is designed to be accessible to anyone, especially families and those new to community science.
Register: https://monarch-community-science-fieldmuseum.hub.arcgis.com/
Photoby K. DaPra
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Travel with this amazing butterfly and trace its migration route to Mexico through fun activities, kid’s crafts and educational displays. See how monarchs are raised, tagged for tracking, and watch live butterflies being released. Learn how you can help monarchs and other pollinators!
From the Forest Preserves of Cook County:
Most people know that monarch caterpillars only eat milkweed plants, however, adult monarch butterflies also need excellent flower nectar sources to fuel their North and South migrations, as well as when they are mating and laying eggs. We will discuss some of the best native plant species for your yard to help monarch butterflies spring to fall.
Registration Required: Call Trailside at 708-366-6530.
From the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center:
Join The Keller Science Action Center on Saturday, June 26, for an in-person, distanced training event to visit our gardens and learn about different types of milkweed, how to find monarch eggs, and how to recognize different stages of caterpillar development.
The morning is being organized for anyone interested in Monarch butterflies and other pollinators along with participants in the Monarch Community Science Project.
This plant distribution is free and open to anyone participating in the 2021 Monarch Community Science Project.
Pre-registration is required. All who register will receive a timed entry to the Museum’s East Parking Lot and have the opportunity to select pollinator-supporting plants for their home garden. Email monarchs@fieldmuseum.org to register.
FREE VIRTUAL SCREENING + DISCUSSION
Ben Crosbie & Tessa Moran/2018/56 min
Presented by GreenTown in partnership with One Earth Film Festival.
FILM DESCRIPTION: A visually dazzling meditation on the delicate balance between human and nature, “The Guardians” elegantly interweaves the lives of the iconic monarch butterfly with an indigenous community in Mexico. Shot over three years, this intimate documentary takes viewers on a cinematic journey through the butterfly dense mountaintops of Michoacan as the community works to build a sustainable path forward. Rarely has the communion of human and nature been told in such an evocative and surprising way, leaving viewers with a new perspective on the ecological challenges facing us all. In Spanish with English subtitles: everyone is welcome! Teens and young adults encouraged to attend. "PG-13" May contain heavy themes, graphic images or language.
Join us after Greentown's special screening of "The Guardians," for a discussion with the film's directors, Ben Crosbie and Tessa Moran, as well as local advocate Toni Anderson, Founder and Executive Director of Sacred Keepers Sustainability Lab and Lorena Lopez, Community Engagement Specialist at the Field Museum. Also learn about concrete action opportunities related to the film's topics. Facilitator: Deborah Stone, Director of Cook County Department of Environmental Control, and Greentown Leadership Team Member.
