Monarch Larva Monitoring Project (MLMP)
Hands-on training for anyone interested in monarch butterflies or monarch monitoring projects for home, schools or parks. Learn about the life cycle of an individual monarch traveling from Indiana to the mountains of Mexico and back to the United States, highlighting the threats to this migration phenomenon. Using live monarch eggs, larvae and adults, identify all stages of a monarch's life cycle and tag adult butterflies. Develop strategies for creating Monarch Waystations and experiment with monarch curriculum for grades K-8. Conducted by Ann Richardson and Robert Richardson, Regional Trainers for the Monarch Larva Monitoring Project, a citizen science project developed at the University of Minnesota. Sponsored by Indiana Project WILD, Indiana Department of Natural Resources.
Registration Deadline: Thursday, July 16, 2009
To register for this workshop, contact the Natural Resources Education Center at (317)562-1338 or
e-mail nrec@dnr.in.gov
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