Monarch Butterflies Have Officially Become An Endangered Species

[Road Runner]

First the bees and then the butterflies. Our pollination team is really hurting.

 

[Manonthestreet]

Thought they just had a banner year

Western monarchs rebound to final tally of nearly 250,000 butterflies | Xerces Society

For decades, the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count has been cataloging the rapid decline of one of North America’s most enigmatic butterflies. In a surprising and remarkable outcome, this winter brought a final tally of 247,237 monarch butterflies observed across the West, an over 100-fold...

www.xerces.org

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I see them here all the time.
The dogs try and catch them or their shadows.

 

[james bond]

There was a group that planted milkweed along the Sacramento River. I live next to the river. However, they are upgrading the levee and the public isn't allowed, so I haven't seen any. I haven't seen any in the neighborhoods. Maybe I'll get some potted milkweed and leave it out.

 

[Missourian]

So...would this be considered Regicide?

 

[badger2]

OP's report reifies monarch, when the overall extinction pathology has to do with hundreds more moths and butterflies that have disappeared. Homo sapiens is directly responsible: a place for its ass automatically deletes a place for the butterflies's ass. Butterfly houses are not the answer. Neither is petroleum addiction.

 

[Road Runner]

I see them here all the time.
The dogs try and catch them or their shadows.

I barely see them around here myself.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

I barely see them around here myself.

I dont know where you live but at our weekend place in Junction Texas they came through every year on their way to mexico.
They'd cover the huge pecans and oaks like they were leaves on the trees. Not even kidding,the trees were absolutely covered in them.

 

[Road Runner]

I dont know where you live

Ohio. The Buckeye state. It's a pretty conservative state too.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Ohio. The Buckeye state. It's a pretty conservative state too.

We find buckeyes on the beach here in Texas all the time.

 

[petro]

Perhaps Evolution could teach them to fly higher than the grill of my car...

 

[Road Runner]

We find buckeyes on the beach here in Texas all the time.

Really?? I LOVE buckeyes!!!

 

[petro]

Thought they just had a banner year

Western monarchs rebound to final tally of nearly 250,000 butterflies | Xerces Society

For decades, the Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count has been cataloging the rapid decline of one of North America’s most enigmatic butterflies. In a surprising and remarkable outcome, this winter brought a final tally of 247,237 monarch butterflies observed across the West, an over 100-fold...

www.xerces.org

I seem to remember that also.
Just recently as a matter of fact...
2019

Monarch butterflies: Signs point to a banner year

It’s early yet, but initial signs point to a banner year, butterfly-wise.

www.ctpost.com

Banner year for butterflies?

BRUNSWICK Anna Agell pulls out a sheaf of notes on the monarch butterflies she’s raised already this year. There was Rudolf Nureyev, so named because her daughter’s cast-off pink ballet tights were draped over the container where he transitioned from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. Then...

www.pressherald.com

Even back in 2006

Monarchs of the air float toward banner year

It's shaping up to be a record year for monarch butterflies.

www.toledoblade.com

Really makes one question the shit we are fed.

 

[initforme]

Keep putting roundup in our food supply. That stuff should be banned. I condone every last lawsuit against the manufacturer.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Really?? I LOVE buckeyes!!!



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These have been soaking in salt water so ya really dont want to eat em.

 

[badger2]

Buckeye, Junonia coenia

Junonia coenia - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[badger2]

I seem to remember that also.
Just recently as a matter of fact...
2019

Monarch butterflies: Signs point to a banner year

It’s early yet, but initial signs point to a banner year, butterfly-wise.

www.ctpost.com

Banner year for butterflies?

BRUNSWICK Anna Agell pulls out a sheaf of notes on the monarch butterflies she’s raised already this year. There was Rudolf Nureyev, so named because her daughter’s cast-off pink ballet tights were draped over the container where he transitioned from caterpillar to chrysalis to butterfly. Then...

www.pressherald.com

Even back in 2006

Monarchs of the air float toward banner year

It's shaping up to be a record year for monarch butterflies.

www.toledoblade.com

Really makes one question the shit we are fed.

Not surprised that badger's home town (Toledo Blade) has a paywall in place to coerce the prisoners into seeing a monarch report.

 

[frigidweirdo]

First the bees and then the butterflies. Our pollination team is really hurting.

Well, we're killing things off that are essential to the ecosystem. Humans without an ecosystem are probably dead humans.