How everyone can help monarch butterflies
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Image caption: A monarch butterfly on a milkweed flower. Image credit: Mark and Michelle Rogovin. Article by Laura Baisas. Popular Science – July 31, 2024. Study: Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution,
Close your eyes and imagine a butterfly. Chances are you may have pictured a monarch, with its blazing orange and black wings. They are some of North America’s most iconic butterflies, but they are close to extinction despite their notoriety. Their caterpillars exclusively eat the leaves of a native wildflower called milkweed and the amount of it growing in North America has plummeted. […]
