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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