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Monarch Population 2014 Grow Milkweed Plants

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Monarch population is nearly flat but greatly reduced from previous decades. Pestacides in your garden could be lethal to monarch caterpillars nearby. Interstate 35 is becoming the Monarch highway. Milkweed in my backyard. Where are the monarchs vacationing in Mexico?
 
Grow Milkweed Plants
 
Sources:
The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/09/the-monarch-massacre-nearly-a-billion-butterflies-have-vanished/
 
Western population numbers - http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/news/western-overwintering-population-2014-15
 
RoundUp - http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/burry298.html
 
Monarch Watch Population Status - http://monarchwatch.org/blog/2015/01/27/monarch-population-status-22/
 
 
Winter roosting sites in Mexico - http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/PopulationMexicoSites.html

Monarch population is nearly flat but greatly reduced from previous decades. Pestacides in your garden could be lethal to monarch caterpillars nearby. Interstate 35 is becoming the Monarch highway. Milkweed in my backyard. Where are the monarchs vacationing in Mexico?
 
Grow Milkweed Plants
 
Sources:
The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/09/the-monarch-massacre-nearly-a-billion-butterflies-have-vanished/
 
Western population numbers - http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/news/western-overwintering-population-2014-15
 
RoundUp - http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/burry298.html
 
Monarch Watch Population Status - http://monarchwatch.org/blog/2015/01/27/monarch-population-status-22/
 
 
Winter roosting sites in Mexico - http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/PopulationMexicoSites.html

16 min