Beth Leuck News Today

TRAVERSE CITY — The great monarch butterfly fall migration is on. Experts, including those from NoMi Monarch City USA communities, share tips for witnessing the natural phenomenon.

Event Description The April meeting of the Gila Native Plant Society will feature a talk by Beth Leuck entitled “Ecology of a desert night-blooming cactus, Peniocereus greggii, in New Mexico.” Peniocereus greggii is a state-endangered cactus found in four southwestern New Mexico counties. Because so little is known about details of this plant’s life history beyond its unique flowering event, Beth and Edwin Leuck began studying a population of these plants south of Rodeo, NM, in 2012. Ecol...