BROOKINGS, Ore. – Southwestern Oregon Community College Curry Campus invites the community to join us on Thursday, October 8, 2026, 1:00 to 2:00 pm, for a presentation on the Monarch Butterfly by Dennis Triglia. This is a free program sponsored by the Friends of Curry Campus and will be held in the Community Room on Southwestern’s Curry Campus, 96082 Lone Ranch Parkway (off Highway 101), Brookings.
Triglia will be conducting a seminar titled “Update on Monarch Butterfly Rearing, Tagging, Release, and Migration Tracking.”
The presentation will cover various topics, including the indoor rearing of monarch butterflies from eggs in a predator-free environment, the use of milkweed as a host plant in home gardens, the traditional method of tracking migration through paper tags featuring a code number and email address, as well as a more precise new method involving the use of radio-tagged devices. The free, downloadable “Project Monarch” smartphone app enables citizen scientists to report sightings of nearby migrating monarch butterflies using the app’s “scan” function.
Triglia will present the most recent data from various releases of radio-tagged Western monarchs from cities in the Pacific Northwest, including Brookings, and possibly from some Eastern monarch releases if available by the date of his seminar.
Bring a friend and stay tuned for upcoming talks in our speaker series.
For more information contact the Curry Campus at 541-813-1667.