Monika Maeckle

Author, conservationist, curious student of nature, Founder Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival, co-founder San Antonio Report

[Monika Maeckle @monikam]

Woolly ironweed wins 2026 Pollinator Plant of the Year–by ONE vote. https://t.co/hJbIqGX5Iu

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Have you voted for 2026 Pollinator Plant of the Year? Do it. #pollinators #gardening #gonative #plantnatives
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The new year calls for a new take on how we appreciate #plants, the foundation of all #life on earth. Journalist Zoë Schlanger assembles exactly that in this shape shifting book. https://t.co/AegetXzvkc

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A new study released last week found that the monarch butterfly’s breeding population is stable and thriving, while its fall migratory population is in serious decline. https://t.co/6JhueCBHl6

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Save the Date! If you're in the Norman area on 9/14, head over to the @SamNobleMuseum for their Curiousiday: Monarch Marvels starting at 10am! We have it on good authority that @monikam's new book will be featured along with some other goodies! https://t.co/1JH2OW8LnT

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A podcast episode near and dear to my heart: @monikam talks about her new book on the monarch butterfly migration, while @bloomingwbirdie talks about the 9th Annual Monarch Butterfly & Pollinator Festival on Oct. 5. https://t.co/miamn7F9sP

[Tracy Idell Hamilton @tihsatx]

Are you part of the Monarchy yet?

Since we met 20 years ago, @monikam's obsession with monarchs, native plants and pollinators has profoundly impacted how I interact with the natural world — and how I share it with my daughters.

Loving this book!

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The butterflies are coming and so is @monikam's new book, "The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall"! This essential book for anyone who loves butterflies comes out August 20th and is available for pre-order now wherever books are sold. https://t.co/Tw3j2q9gwZ

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Inspiring restoration of a former bus depot. https://t.co/vFOV8kEJFh

[Andrew Berzanskis @ABerzanskis]

@Joe_Schiller Next @monikam's "The Monarch Butterfly Migration: Its Rise and Fall," a sweeping tale of the scientists who fight over conservation tactics, the "flutterati," and learning to love the monarch when the migration is one day no more.

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Bye bye bluebonnets! Bastard cabbage is ousting our native Texas #wildflowers. https://t.co/tlou7631N8

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Monarch butterflies are early and so are the #wildflowers. #monarchbutterflies #monarchmigration #Texaswildflowers #bluebonnets
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Monarch #butterfly population down 59% in Mexico, drops 30% in California. https://t.co/ZzzpWVw3yg

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Have you checked your zone lately? #gardening https://t.co/ahrw2xhEBd

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And then this happened. https://t.co/RklkdhBN4C

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Hot summer means year a tough season for migrating #monarchbutterflies, but new research says they’re butterflies “are not in trouble.”https://t.co/z2YK5echNF

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Longtime hose dragger considers drip irrigation for garden in extreme #Texas summer heat. https://t.co/2xX2bRYzsw

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New study: size and brilliance matter when it comes to the white spots on a monarch butterfly’s wings. https://t.co/8r8x1zLYDK

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Scientist and naturalist David M. Hillis provides holistic, enlightening tour of Texas Hill Country https://t.co/Rch8ASFczf

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Finally! San Antonio gets its first native plant nursery, the Nectar Bar #nativeplants https://t.co/wHt70xB8av