Monarch Butterflies Under Attack

Monarch butterflies are under attack and their numbers are drastically on the decline. Monarch butterflies in the millions make the annual trip from Canada to Mexico in what is one of he most beautiful sights in the world.

This 3000 mile journey is a mystery of nature because it takes 4 generations of monarchs to complete the journey, and each generation picks up the trip where the previous generation left off.

This annual trip is a scientific mystery because the monarch will know how to navigate from Canada to Mexico without every having been there before.

Fewer and fewer monarchs have been making the trip over the last 15 years because their natural breeding grounds are under attack.

GMO and herbicide resistant crops like soybean and corn are wiping out milkweed because there herbicides used to protect these crops are also killing of the milkweed.

Monarch numbers have been on a serious decline within the last few years. Monarch coverage of their wintering grounds in Mexico was on average 6.39 hectares from 1994-2014.

The is number dropped 10 times to 0.67 hectares during the 2013-2014 winter.