Feeding The Monarch Butterfly

The monarch butterfly’s natural and preferred food, milkweed, is being destroyed by the pesticides used to protect GMO crops, habitat loss, and climate change.

The has led to the staggering decline of monarch butterflies. Monarch butterflies covered 1.65 acres in 2013, compared to 44 acres in 1996.

Monarch butterflies depend on milkweed to survive, but it is being systematically destroyed and is disappearing at alarming rates.

People are being encouraged to purchase monarch survival kits but I don’t know how much this will help. The kits will allow you to grow your own milkweed and though this is a nice idea a dense area of milkweed is needed instead on 1 or 2 plants.

Large scale interventions will be needed to save the monarch butterfly.

Monarch Help

A study asked participants across the U.S. whether they would be happy to donate money for the preservation of monarchs.

There were also asked if they would be willing pay to plant monarch-friendly nectar or milkweed plants.

The results were supporting, leaving the researchers felling optimistic.

The number of people who were surveyed suggested that the U.S. public would spend between $4.78 billion and $6.64 billion to help safeguard the monarch butterfly.

The monarch butterfly is the insect of seven U.S. states, and is commemorated in a variety of celebrations held across North America.

The annual migration of monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) is among nature’s most attractive views.

Millions of the butterflies migrate every year from the as far north as Canada and the northern United States to wintering grounds in the forests of Mexico.

The is amazing journey by million upon millions of monarch butterflies can be over 3,000 miles, an amazingly takes several generations to complete.