Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video is called Complete Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly.
From Wildlife Extra:
Monarch butterfly numbers decline again
Drought conditions and historic wildfires lead to more decline
March 2013. Bad news again for the Monarch butterfly: Drought conditions and historic wildfires the past few years continue to decrease their numbers as they wing across Texas this spring. Worse news: milkweed plants – the only kind they need to survive – are also not in plentiful supply, says a Texas A&M University Monarch watcher.
Craig Wilson, a senior research associate in the Center for Mathematics and Science Education and a longtime butterfly enthusiast, says reports coming from Mexico where the Monarchs have their breeding grounds show their numbers are significantly down, a disturbing trend during much of the past decade.
Wilson explains “The severe drought in Texas and much of the Southwest continues to wreak havoc with the…
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