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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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Pollinator-palooza 2018

August 4, 2018March 23, 2019 Mike Nowak e-commerce, environment, exotic invasives, gardening, monarch butterfly, native plants, Nature Hills Nursery, plant diseases, Plant Sentry, pollinators, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show

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Landscape horticulturist Dolly Foster teaches you how to make your garden pollinator friendly. Tom Buechel explains how the Plant Sentry program will theoretically keep plant e-commerce free of invasive plants and pests.

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February 4, 2018 – Saving the Monarch, Round 2: Pessimists v. Optimists

February 3, 2018February 9, 2018 Mike Nowak environment, extinction, gardening, green living, habitat loss, Kylee Baumlee, milkweed, monarch butterfly, seed germination, sustainability, The Mike Nowak Show, The Seed Keeper Company

Kylee Baumlee, author of The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly, visits the WCGO studios, along with Carol Niec and Kerrie Rosenthal from The Seed Keeper Company. On a snowy day, Pat Skach fills in for meteorologist Rick DiMaio.

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September 17, 2017 – Wildcrafting, Tracking Monarchs

September 17, 2017September 28, 2017 Mike Nowak Doug Taron, endangered species, environment, gardening, herbalist, Lisa M. Rose, Midwest Medicinal Plants, monarch butterfly, Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, The Mike Nowak Show, wildcrafting

Lisa M. Rose talks about her book Midwest Medicinal Plants and how you can forage for those plants in your own yard. A group called Mighty House announces an effort to reduce nutrient pollutants by targeting big meat producers. Doug Taron from the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum reports on Midwest monarch populations as they begin their migration to Mexico.

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May 20, 2017 – Saving the Monarch

May 20, 2017May 23, 2017 Mike Nowak chrysalis, citizen scientist, environment, gardening, habitat, insects, Kylee Baumlee, migration, milkweed, monarch butterfly, native plants, pesticides, The Mike Nowak Show

Mike and Peggy welcome citizen scientist and author Kylee Baumlee, who talks about her new book, The Monarch: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly.