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Pesticide residues in monarch butterflies collected from Pacific Grove, California, USA in January 2024

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Publication Date
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2024-01-25
End Date
2024-01-29

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Hladik, M.L., 2024, Pesticide residues in monarch butterflies collected from Pacific Grove, California, USA in January 2024: U.S. Geological Survey data release, https://doi.org/10.5066/P1UXFTJI.

Summary

In January 2024 adult monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus (Linnaeus, 1758)) were found dead near their overwintering site in Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, USA. Ten of the deceased monarchs (six females and four males) were collected from three sites by staff at the Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History and sent to the U.S. Geological Survey Organic Chemistry Research Laboratory for analysis. Each individual adult monarch was analyzed following methods in Black et al., 2023 and Gross et al., 2024a and 2024b for 181 pesticides and pesticide transformation products; 15 pesticides were detected and included 8 insecticides/insecticide transformation products, 2 fungicides, and 4 herbicides/herbicide transformation products. [...]

Contacts

Point of Contact :
Michelle L Hladik, U.S. Geological Survey, SOUTHWEST REGION
Process Contact :
Michelle L Hladik, U.S. Geological Survey, SOUTHWEST REGION
Originator :
Michelle L Hladik
Metadata Contact :
Michelle L Hladik, U.S. Geological Survey, SOUTHWEST REGION
Publisher :
U.S. Geological Survey
Distributor :
U.S. Geological Survey - ScienceBase
SDC Data Owner :
California Water Science Center
USGS Mission Area :
Ecosystems

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Monarch metadata.xml
“Metadata”
Original FGDC Metadata
View 		23.93 KB application/fgdc+xml
Pesticides Detected.txt
“Pesticide Detected” 		1.74 KB text/plain
Compounds Analyzed.txt
“Compounds Analyzed” 		9.79 KB text/plain
Adult monarch_USGS2024_CCO.jpg
“Adult monarch butterfly” 		thumbnail 870.71 KB image/jpeg

Purpose

Quantify pesticide residues in adult monarchs collected during a die-off event in Pacific Grove, Monterey County California, in January 2024.
Adult monarch butterfly
Adult monarch butterfly

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