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GMP 003: Monarch Population 2014
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GMP 003: Monarch Population 2014

Grow Milkweed Plants

February 19, 201516m 14s

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Monarch population is nearly flat but greatly reduced from previous decades. Pestacides in your garden could be lethal to monarch caterpillars nearby. Interstate 35 is becoming the Monarch highway. Milkweed in my backyard. Where are the monarchs vacationing in Mexico?

Grow Milkweed Plants

Sources:

The Washington Post - http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/02/09/the-monarch-massacre-nearly-a-billion-butterflies-have-vanished/

Western population numbers - http://monarchjointventure.org/news-events/news/western-overwintering-population-2014-15

RoundUp - http://darwin.bio.uci.edu/sustain/global/sensem/burry298.html

Monarch Watch Population Status - http://monarchwatch.org/blog/2015/01/27/monarch-population-status-22/

Winter roosting sites in Mexico - http://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/PopulationMexicoSites.html