Monarchs make a rebound

Saving the monarch butterfly: the feds have an offer for private industry

Saving the monarch butterfly: the feds have an offer for private industry A partnership can help ensure this important species is protected in cooperative agreements, rather than through forced regulation that can actually backfire. Monarch butterflies' declining numbers stem from habitat destruction blamed on factors such as last year’s Texas drought and wildfires and The last thing we need right now is for one of the beautiful things in life to continue to disappear. That’s what’s been happening for years now to the monarch butterfly, with its numbers declining precipitously as habitat is lost and other factors threaten it. We have some good news on this front that involves the kind of partnership between government and industry that can help ensure important species are protected in cooperative agreements rather than forced regulation that can actually backfire on preservation efforts. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the first

Sun Current | From egg to butterfly

Sun Current | From egg to butterfly The kids living around Marion McNurlen’s Morningside home love to set free the monarch butterflies raised by McNurlen. Marion McNurlen holds the mesh lid where caterpillars have turned into the chrysalides that will eventually produce monarch butterflies. McNurlen finds the eggs on milkweed leaves, keeping them in her home until they turn into butterflies and are set free by the neighborhood children. (Sun Current staff photo by Lisa Kaczke) Her 2-year-old granddaughter watches the egg become a caterpillar that turns into a chrysalis before letting the adult butterfly go in her grandmother’s yard. It’s about teaching children so they’re interested and raising children who will be advocates for critters, McNurlen said. McNurlen has let 60 monarch butterflies go over the past several years that she found as eggs and raised to butterflies in her home. Her love of monarch butterflies has turned a lot of friends on to raising them as well. This has been

Save the Butterflies

Gardening Articles | August 9, 2011 Are you sick of rainy days? This so-called July weather? Is it dampening your spirits and killing the social calendar? Is it threatening your species? If the answer to the last question is yes, then you are one of the butterflies that feature in this article, if not then you're like me - just another malcontent, fed up with British weather. Butterflies are one of the few purely decorative insects you can attract and their variety of colours is astonishing, thus making them a welcome addition to any garden, but, due to last year’s wet summer, and the continuing trend this year, Britain has seen a severe decline in several species of butterfly. As most of us know, water and wings don't mix, particularly where insects are concerned. A heavy rainstorm is comparable to a blitzkrieg from a butterfly’s perspective and all this rotten weather has meant they've been less actively pollinating and breeding. As such, last week’s article on pond c

Monarch Conservation

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