You may have heard, Monarch butterflies are in trouble. Over the last few decades, populations of these iconic orange and black butterflies have declined by over 90 percent.
The monarch is a well known and cherished butterfly species in the United States. Every year the monarchs undertake one of the world’s most remarkable migrations, traveling thousands of miles from Mexico, across the United States, to Canada.
The monarch’s exclusive larval host plant and a critical food source is native milkweed, which has been eradicated or severely degraded in many areas across the United States. The accelerated conversion of the continent’s native short and tallgrass prairie habitat to crop production has also had an adverse impact on the monarch. The degradation of wintering habitat in Mexico and California has had an alarming negative impact on the species.
This is a crisis situation for the Monarch Butterflies. Natural events are also one of the challenges that have effected the Monarch and yet they are not the main cause of their decline. In one such event In 1991, over 75% of the wintering Monarchs from North America froze to death in Mexico as a result of three days of rain and sub-freezing conditions.
#savemonarchbutterflies #plantmilkweed #nativemilkweed #milkweedseeds
The monarch is a well known and cherished butterfly species in the United States. Every year the monarchs undertake one of the world’s most remarkable migrations, traveling thousands of miles from Mexico, across the United States, to Canada.
The monarch’s exclusive larval host plant and a critical food source is native milkweed, which has been eradicated or severely degraded in many areas across the United States. The accelerated conversion of the continent’s native short and tallgrass prairie habitat to crop production has also had an adverse impact on the monarch. The degradation of wintering habitat in Mexico and California has had an alarming negative impact on the species.
This is a crisis situation for the Monarch Butterflies. Natural events are also one of the challenges that have effected the Monarch and yet they are not the main cause of their decline. In one such event In 1991, over 75% of the wintering Monarchs from North America froze to death in Mexico as a result of three days of rain and sub-freezing conditions.
#savemonarchbutterflies #plantmilkweed #nativemilkweed #milkweedseeds
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