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EPISODE · Feb 19, 2015 · 16 MIN

GMP 003: Monarch Population 2014

from Grow Milkweed Plants · host Brad Grimm

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

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