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Infection in Monarchs (O.e.) Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ

December 19, 2024 Jessica Schera Education, Monarch Monitoring, Nature Center of Cape May, NCCM, NJ Audubon, Research, Seasonal Research, View From The Cape

Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (O.e.) Infection in Monarchs Migrating through Cape May Point, NJ By Gayle Steffy, 2024 MMP Field Naturalist Ophryocystis elektroscirrha. (O.e.) is a parasitic single celled organism known as a protozoan that infects monarch butterflies. It is transferred from an infected adult monarch to a caterpillar by spores that…...

Cape May Monarch Monitoring Project Annual Report 2024

December 9, 2024 Jessica Schera Education, Monarch Monitoring, Nature Center of Cape May, NCCM, NJ Audubon, Research, Seasonal Research, View From The Cape

By Anna Haggenjos and Gayle Steffy Project Overview The Monarch Monitoring Project (MMP) was founded in 1990 by naturalist Dick Walton and Dr. Lincoln Brower. This project, under New Jersey Audubon’s Cape May Bird Observatory, seeks to better understand the fall migration of monarch butterflies through Cape May Point and…...

BioBlitz at CMBO’s Center for Research and Education – September 15, 2022

September 22, 2022 Jessica Schera Education, Research, Stewardship, View From The Cape

Last week we had our annual BioBlitz at the CMBO Center for Research and Education (CRE). A BioBlitz is an event that is aimed at identifying as many species as possible within a certain area within a certain amount of time. In our case, our BioBlitz took place at CRE…...

NJ Audubon Monitoring Young Forest Treatment Areas

June 6, 2022 Chris Neff NJ Audubon, Research, Stewardship

Since the start of the USDA Natural Resource Conservation Service’s (NRCS) Working Lands for Wildlife Program (WLFW) in 2012, New Jersey Audubon (NJA) has been instrumental in assisting numerous private landowners to enroll in the program, develop habitat management plans, as well as implementing those plans, for the recovery of…...