Heads up, #MonarchButterfly watchers--the Monarchs in Mexico are getting restless, and they typically break camp during the last few days of February, moving up to Texas where the milkweeds are already sprouting.

What's new this year is radio tags (Blū+ tags, specifically) and there's a free app from Project Monarch Science you can find at the app store and use to check out if any flying near you have been tagged. World Wildlife Fund applied the tags while in Mexico (they also recover the Monarch Watch wing tags for the University of KS) and those tags will be prefaced by CHI, ROS, or MES and although they weren't explained, I suspect those prefixes designate which refuge area they were tagged in.

Responsible for Monarch radio tagging:
World Wildlife Fund – Mexico (WWF-MX), the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), Cape May Point Arts & Science Center (CMPASC), and Cellular Tracking Technologies (CTT). Information was via the University of Kansas' Monarch Watch listserve.