Butterfly
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First butterfly tagged in Winnipeg makes it to Mexico, expert saysTracking the butterfly migration also allows researchers to identify what pathways they take so they can focus on conservation efforts in those areas.EnvironmentOct 11
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Saskatoon Prairie Butterfly House opens doors for first full seasonThe butterflies fly freely in the butterfly house, and the zoo asks that guests give the butterflies space and avoid handling or removing butterflies from plants or the habitat.EntertainmentJun 5, 2023
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Canadian sex workers are challenging a law that does them ‘harms’. Here’s what to knowJenn Clamen, the national coordinator of CASWLR, said this is the first constitutional challenge to PCEPA provisions initiated by sex workers.CanadaOct 3, 2022
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Blossoming marriages funding budding gardens in Montreal’s Saint-Laurent boroughThe public garden in Parc Beaudet features a meadow of annual and perennial flowers, to attract and protect pollinators and endangered butterflies.CanadaSep 2, 2022
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Quebec communities help endangered monarchs with butterfly-friendly plantsDozens of garden enthusiasts are putting their green thumbs to good use, planting native plants to help local pollinators with the Butterflyway Project.EnvironmentJul 25, 2022
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First milestone passed in reintroducing endangered butterfly to Ontario park: University of GuelphThe University of Guelph says a project to help revive an endangered butterfly species, launched last year, has passed its first milestone.CanadaMay 25, 2022
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‘Reclaiming my sexuality’: How Asian women are reshaping their sexual narrativeThroughout modern history, media portrayals and racist profiling have presented Asian women as hypersexual and submissive, or desexualized and invisible.LifestyleMay 30, 2021
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Insect migration studied with the help of tiny ‘fanny packs’: researcherA new study by University of Guelph researchers, in connection with the Nature Conservancy of Canada, has equipped a pair of insect species – monarch butterflies and common green darner dragonflies – with tiny radio-transmitting 'fanny packs' that will help researchers track their migration.EnvironmentJul 7, 2019
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U.S., Mexico surpass Canada in efforts to restore monarch butterfly habitatA newly released survey for 2018 found monarchs on more than six hectares of forest, which would suggest population numbers were up 144 per cent since 2017.CanadaFeb 5, 2019
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Wintering monarch butterfly population booms with 144 per cent increaseThis is the biggest measurement since the 2006-2007 period, according to Mexico’s national commissioner for protected natural areas.CanadaJan 31, 2019
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