3. Inform public on community and regional level about
pollinator gardens as they benefit monarch butterflies.
Explain life cycle and migration patterns of monarchs.
Generate knowledge about characteristics of patches
and corridors used by the monarch butterfly.
Transform the selected project areas into a functional
environmental patch for monarch butterflies.
Objectives
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4. Propagation rates could increase by
informing the public on how they can help
to rebuild the Monarch habitat
By providing Monarchs with the
environmental resources they need, they
can be moved out of the realm of
threatened.
Justification: Ecological/Biological
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5. The Million Pollinator Garden Challenge
Butterflies are aesthetically pleasing
Flowering plants add atmosphere and
vibrancy, increasing aesthetic values where
gardens are constructed.
Justification: Social/Beauty
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6. Pollinators contribute to the pollination of plant
species.
Every third bite of food we consume is
generated by a pollinator!
Planting pollinator gardens along power line
corridors creates a more ecologically
productive landscape.
Justification: Economic
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7. TWO GROUPS, ONE GOAL
Group #1:
Construct pollinator gardens on top of buildings
on SFA’s campus.
Group #2:
Construct pollinator gardens on and around
campus
Increase the public’s knowledge of the importance
of pollinator species.
Methods
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8. Seek approval by the school.
Multiple meetings with people with
different fields and scopes of authority.
Determine:
Types and species of plants
Garden sizes and locations
Ways to supply water.
Not accomplishable due to safety and
monetary constraints.
Methods- Group #1
Conner Marx, Samantha Singletary, Aaron Slevin, & Jordyn Wagner
9. Project was refocused to using
dead space atop parking garages
on the SFA campus.
Locations were scouted using
2016 Pictometry in ArcMap
software.
Approval to construct these
pollinator gardens was, again,
denied.
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Methods- Group #1
10. A patch can be as small as 3 square feet.
Very specific as to habitat (milkweed).
There many different milkweeds each with a
specific ecoregion.
Monarch Small Patch Habitat
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11. Collected information regarding the monarch butterfly
Life cycle
Breeding habits
Preferred habitats
Food sources
Migration paths
Determined the most suitable location to construct monarch
pollinator gardens (Environmental Patches).
Several pollinator gardens within SFA azalea trails were
registered with the Million Pollinator Garden project.
Conner Marx, Samantha Singletary, Aaron Slevin, & Jordyn Wagner
Methods- Group #2
13. Locations:
Power line corridor, which
borders Lanana Creek.
Regenerated low grass
disturbance patch located
within Banita Creek
Reserve.
Methods- Group #2
Conner Marx, Samantha Singletary, Aaron Slevin, & Jordyn Wagner
14. Plant Species:
Neches River Rosemallow
Hibiscus dasycalyx
Indian Pink
Spigelia marilandica
Big Momma Turks Cap
Malvaviscus drummondii
Blush Turk’s Cap
Malvaviscus x Blush
Giant Coneflower
Rudbeckia maximus
Pink Turk’s Cap
Malvaviscus drummondii
‘Pam Puryear
Pink Princess Verbena
Verbena x hybrid ‘Pink
Princess
Button snakeroot
Erygium yuccifolium
15. The length of the shown double sided arrow is .98 cm on this image. The
actual length of this distance measured on the ground is 284.48 cm.
Using this information the scale of this image was calculated to be 1 cm:
290.29 cm.
Through the use of this scale we were able to calculate the area of our
proposed environmental patch location.
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