{"id":2750,"date":"2014-09-18T15:58:28","date_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:58:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/outdooredguys.wordpress.com\/?p=2750"},"modified":"2014-09-18T15:58:28","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T19:58:28","slug":"monarchs-reign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2014\/09\/18\/monarchs-reign\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs Reign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/monarch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2752 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/monarch.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"monarch\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>Last year, I think I saw two or three monarch butterflies the entire year. On Tuesday this week, with a grade seven class from Edna Staebler Public School, we\u00a0counted 21 monarchs on a ten-minute walk to the stream. They were fluttering over the tops of a field of goldenrod, warming up in the sun. Hopefully this is evidence of a population rebound after\u00a0the past few years of plunging\u00a0monarch numbers.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a graph from the Journey North website that tracks monarch migration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left\"><a href=\"https:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2013-11-24-at-5_26_52-pm.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2751\" src=\"http:\/\/outdooredguys.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/09\/screen-shot-2013-11-24-at-5_26_52-pm.png?w=300\" alt=\"Screen-Shot-2013-11-24-at-5_26_52-PM\" width=\"341\" height=\"247\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I think I saw two or three monarch butterflies the entire year. On Tuesday this week, with a grade seven class from Edna Staebler Public School, we\u00a0counted 21 monarchs on a ten-minute walk to the stream. They were fluttering over the tops of a field of goldenrod, warming up in the sun. Hopefully [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/2014\/09\/18\/monarchs-reign\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Monarchs Reign<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13968,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13968"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/environmental-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}