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Return of the Butterfly Whisperer

July 10, 2021July 12, 2021 Mike Nowak Chicago Academy of Sciences, climate change, Doug Taron, estivating butterflies, Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network, insect decline, monarch butterfly, Peggy Malecki, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, pesticides, regal fritillary, squash vine borer, The Mike Nowak Show

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Doug Taron is a PhD, Chief Curator of the Chicago Academy of Sciences at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, director of the Illinois Butterfly Monitoring Network and much more. But we prefer to call him The Butterfly Whisperer. At least this week. He joins us on the show to talk monarchs, regal fritillaries, insect decline, and whatever else comes up in the realm of entomology.

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