It’s always exciting when the Monarchs arrive!
Joy, we had our first Monarch butterfly in our yard today!
I was surprised to read this about the Monarch butterflies. See below from Minnesota Public Radio
Everyday concentrate on clean air and never burn wood or put dirty air into the atmosphere. That includes driving less!
This is from Minnesota Public Radio:
People can help by planting both native nectar and host plants, like milkweed, reducing pesticide use and mowing less grass less often.
Monarch butterflies are beginning to return to Minnesota and should start arriving in droves in the next two weeks. But the population returning from Mexico will likely be much smaller than in years past.
This winter, the number of eastern monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico was the smallest researchers had recorded in a decade.
A years-long drought pattern, winter whiplash and warming temperatures are all hurting the vulnerable species and the plants it relies on to survive, according to University of Minnesota Professor Emilie Snell-Rood, who studies monarchs and other pollinators.
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