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The population is also tracked via the Monarch Watch Tagging Program which began in 1992. Volunteers tag butterflies with a small sticker on the underside of their wing. Each sticker has a unique three-letter, three-number code referring to the location at which it was tagged. According to their website, Monarch Watch distributes tags to thousands of volunteers each fall who “capture monarchs throughout the migration season, record the tag code, tag date, gender of the butterfly, and geographic location, then tag and release them.” People who recover the monarch can submit the data by calling the number or sending an email to the address listed on the tag. Tagging kits, for those interested in volunteering, are available at monarchwatch.org.
The number of monarchs counted while overwintering in Mexico increased 144 percent last year, which made it the highest count since 2006. While this is impressive, the monarch population is not even half of what it was in 1996. The increase in the Mexican population this past year is most likely attributable to favorable weather in the spring and summer mating seasons. The California population has continued falling in recent years, and the decrease is most likely due to habitat loss and the presence of pesticides. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was petitioned to designate monarchs an endangered species in 2014, but they are still assessing whether they should actually be classified under the Endangered Species Act.
Because of their short lifespan and the large distance they travel, it takes four generations of monarchs to travel from Mexico north to Canada. The lifespan for most monarchs is six to eight weeks. As they travel northward, they mate and lay eggs that eventually become the butterflies that continue the journey north, until they reach their destination in southern Canada, where the fifth and final generation in the migration cycle is born in September and October. These monarchs live much longer —four to five months— and make the entire journey down from Canada to Mexico. They reach their roosts in November and overwinter huddled on Oyamel firs in the mountaintops of central Mexico and then become active and begin mating in March and April, which starts the migration cycle over again. Nearly 99 percent of the monarch populations migrate to Mexico, but the rest of the monarchs, west of the Rocky Mountains, migrate to southern California.
Here is an easy way to help monarchs along on their journey: plant milkweed. Milkweed serve as monarchs’ only host plants, which means that is the only plant they will lay their eggs on, and the only plant on which their larvae will feed. “It’s important to get native milkweed,” says Carillo, because it is what will grow most successfully in the environment and will also be a beneficial food source for other native pollinators, that have co-evolved with native plants. Monarchs have lost nearly 165 million acres of milkweed in the United States since the mid-1990s.
Milkweed is toxic to monarchs’ predators, and when the monarchs eat milkweed, they absorb that toxicity, which keeps their predators away. Viceroy butterflies are a mimic of monarchs, meaning they look very similar —the only way to tell them apart is by the horizontal line across their bottom wings, that monarchs do not have. So even though viceroy do not eat any toxic plants, predators will stay away from viceroy because they look like monarchs.
Milkweed is the most beneficial plant for monarchs, but there are other ways to help them and other pollinators like other species of butterflies, bees, hawk moths, hummingbirds and wasps, who all feed on nectar plants. Native perennial flowers like bee balm, western yarrow, butterfly weed, chocolate flower, and various species of penstemon and sage, will attract butterflies and other pollinators and serve as a food source. Various species of both annual and perennial verbenas and lantanas also attract butterflies. Blue grama grass is also helpful, because it provides food for caterpillars.
Some common butterfly species in New Mexico that might visit a butterfly-friendly garden include viceroy, western tiger and giant swallowtails, clouded and cloudless sulfur, cabbage white, painted ladies, common buckeyes and mourning cloaks. Mourning cloaks are generally the first to make an appearance in late winter or early spring. Monarchs are most commonly seen in New Mexico during the fall on their migration south.
Another way to make your garden beneficial to butterflies is to avoid using pesticides, especially on plants that monarchs and other pollinators use as a food source, because it will kill the pollinators you are trying to encourage. You can create a water source for butterflies by filling a shallow dish with water and some rocks, which give the butterflies something to land on while they drink.
“The great thing about helping monarchs is that you’re helping other pollinators, too,” says Carillo. “People might not care about helping a little bee who is only specific to one part of New Mexico, but a lot of people do care about monarchs. Anything you do to help monarchs will also help that little bee, which sustains a certain plant that feeds bigger animals, and so on, throughout the hierarchy of the ecosystem.”
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People noting the crisp green and white roofing trucks in and out at 3819 Corrales Road assumed the owner was getting work done on the red-roofed building. But no. TPC Roofing is now leasing that building, after operating for six years in larger quarters in Albuquerque. Owners James Mosher and Hollie Constant moved the business to Corrales, where they live, and have installed a team working from what is now the new office. TPC makes use of more than seven roofing crews, and handles flat and non flat roof projects. 401-3079.
Things are still in flux at the building formerly housing photographer Kim Jew. TAG Insurance Services now has an office there, at 4604 Corrales Road. Tammy Evans, who ran Amazing Finds at 4604 since the fall of 2018, after departing the space recently leased by TPC Roofing, has shuttered her doors and talks of moving again, this time to a space that may come available at 4240 Corrales Road.
That address, which appears to comprise more than one house, and a retail space, is currently for sale by owner Paul, whose sign is in place. One Day at a Time Ministry Thrift Shop is still operating there, the end of each week, but one volunteer said the group is seeking new space somewhere in Rio Rancho, preferably in a small shopping mall. The Corrales location, she said, was “very slow.” The Thrift shop started up in July 2016.
While the buzz around the Village is that a possible coffee roasting business is going in near Las Ristras Restaurant, at 4940 Corrales Road, likely to offer only “tastings,” the Moon & Dove Gallery, below, is a definite. In the space locals associate with longtime Stevie’s Happy Bikes business, at 4685 Corrales Road, owner Dagna Altheide has opened a gallery cum shop in homage to her artist parents, Linda Vi Vona and Ed Samuels. Vi Vona is a prolific creator, an artist from childhood, who continued to turn out work even after an auto accident in the 1990s left her wheelchair-bound. Her recent work, multi-media collages, is on display at Moon & Dove. “Art saved my mom’s life,” says Altheide.
Samuels, whose silver “moon” jewelry pieces, as well as paintings, are for sale in the Gallery, grew up in the Bronx with artsy aunts and uncles, and he, too, was an artist from day one. As you might have guessed, Samuels is the “moon” and Vi Vona, the “dove,” saluted in Altheide’s gallery. The many pieces of Pueblo art available at Moon & Dove were all collected by Samuels, “a true hoarder…”
Corrales, curiously, was where Altheide and her kids came to swim, and shop, and just hang out, even though the family was long established in Jemez Springs. There Altheide and her husband John ran the Canon del Rio Retreat and Spa, as well as the Jemez Trading Company—John’s family had owned Los Ojos Restaurant and Saloon. The Altheides finally decided to decamp to Rio Rancho, opening Moon & Dove officially on July 7. Having cleaned up the patio/garden area, shared somewhat with Thrive Chiropractic’s yoga studio, and opened the Gallery, Altheide is musing on adding something, after she takes a long postponed holiday. “Ice cream parlor?” suggested a visitor. Wait and see. The Gallery is open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., daily except Monday and Tuesday. 414-5070.
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