Tag: Monarch decline

Monarch population status released

53.22 % decrease in Monarch overwintering population recorded this winter. We don’t control the weather or deforestation in other areas or the amount of pesticides that someone else chooses to spray. But we CAN grow more Milkweed for the Monarch’s caterpillars and nectar plants to feed the adult butterflies.

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Monarch caterpillar on Swamp Milkweed bloom

ASCLEPIAS IN THE NEWS

The Milkweed family is known as Asclepias to botanists. With the decline of the Monarch population this plant genus has become very popular because of its unique trait of being the ONLY food source for the Monarch Caterpillar. The caterpillars are immune to the poison in the milksap and actually become poisonous themselves as protection […]

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