BBEMA

The 2025 Monarch season has wrapped up at BBEMA!

In Partnership with the Espace pour la vie, we performed surveys at four different sites through Mission Monarch. We observed an estimated 52 caterpillars across our sites, with over 100 sightings throughout our weekly visits.

In addition to Mission Monarch, we reared and tagged 27 butterflies and sampled 31 for OE.

Plus, in collaboration with Environment and Climate Change Canada’s Habitat Stewardship Program and Canadian Wildlife Services, we carried out monarch staging surveys at two locations: Borden-Carleton and Wood Islands.

Additionally, we were grateful to speak with CBC about the current state of monarch butterflies in Bedeque Bay and how this year’s drought has affected them. Check out the article or listen to our clip with Mitch Cormier on Island Morning!

Monarch butterfly numbers plunge on Prince Edward Island after dry summer | CBC News

Thank you to everyone who helped make this a successful season! Thank you especially to those fellow Monarch butterfly enthusiasts. They have generously collected or donated Swamp Milkweed seeds to our organization. This help enables us to partner with more landowners. It also allows us to further plant more Monarch breeding habitats across the Bedeque watershed.