Monarch butterflies weigh less than a gram, putting any tracking device on one would overburden the insect. But BlūMorpho (“solar-powered transmitter operating at 2.4 GHz (Bluetooth frequency), allowing detection by both dedicated wildlife receivers and everyday smartphones.”) changes that. Project Monarch is a collaborative effort of researchers and enthusiast working on some of the most detailed flight mapping ever captured.
Via Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation
Everything changed in November 2024 when a butterfly named Lionel, equipped with a new additional bit of programming code, dubbed Blū+, was released in Cape May Point. By tapping into crowd-sourced location networks, Lionel provided the first high-resolution track of monarch migration ever recorded, with hundreds of detections to St. Augustine, Florida.
“Lionel’s track was a pivotal moment for us,” said Dr. Sean Burcher, Senior R&D Scientist at CTT and Science Director at CMPASC. “With hundreds of millions of devices all acting as passive receivers we were able to watch the fine-scale movements of Lionel in near-real-time.”
- We Can Now Track Individual Monarch Butterflies. It’s a Revelation. Dan Fagin, New York Times
- Project Monarch
- Project Monarch TedX
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