Great article on Monarch butterflies...new research identifies three conditions operating in Mexico, the United States and Canada that threaten monarch populations: destruction of monarch habitat, loss of milkweed (their primary food source) due to glyphosate herbicides, and trends toward extreme climate conditions that make the entire life cycle more difficult for Monarchs to complete successfully. Read more at the link below.
MEXICO CITY, Mexico, January 31, 2014 (ENS) – Monarch butterflies are vanishing from the Monarch Reserve in Mexico’s temperate forest where they spend November through March hibernating after migrating more than 2,500 miles from Canada and the United States.
Read more at ens-newswire.com
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