In the last few decades, there has been a significant decline in the population of pollinators that are key to the growth of new plants, as well as the production of our food supply. Tashua Knolls is doing its part to combat this decline with a few vital efforts, one of them being the Monarchs in the Rough program.
Monarchs in the Rough
Tashua Knolls Golf Course is an active participant of the Monarchs in the Rough program, designed to help golf courses create and manage habitats for monarch butterflies, which have seen a 90% decrease in population in the last 20 years (Monarchs in the Rough 2020). These habitats usually consist of milkweed and wildflowers, which can be seen in many of the natural areas of our golf course, notably on hole #4.
In 2019, we raised group of butterflies in a nesting container inside the clubhouse. After a few weeks of care, they had transformed into adults ready for release onto the course, where they could find a suitable habitat to lay eggs and continue the cycle. Check out the gallery below to see our butterflies as they went from eggs, to caterpillars, into chrysalis, and emerged as fully grown Monarchs!
July 21, 2022 – Monarchs Considered Endangered Species
Monarch Butterflies are now classified as endangered by the International Union of Conservation of Nature. Read more in the article here