LINCOLN, Neb. (Nebraska Today) – Enjoying a stroll across campus this fall likely includes the happy sighting of a monarch butterfly — or dozens of them.
The iconic orange and black pollinators are making their annual trip to overwintering sites in Mexico, stopping to recharge and feed in Nebraska. The sightings might suggest a possible surge in monarch populations.
This is by design, said Jody Green, urban entomologist and extension educator in the Douglas-Sarpy County Extension Office. Through the Nebraska Pollinator Habitat Certification program, Nebraska Extension helps educate individuals, businesses and other entities on how to make their green spaces friendlier to pollinators like the migrating monarch, and encourages the planting of milkweed, a superfood for the butterflies…