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Forum Post: To Kill a Monarch

Posted 10 years ago on June 5, 2013, 11:10 a.m. EST by shoozTroll (17632)
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Butterfly, that is.

If you've never seen their migration, you're missing out on one the most beautiful and spectacular scenes Mother Nature has to offer.

Now, due to GMOs and cutting down the forest in Mexico they migrate to, literally billions of butterfly's will be GONE.

http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/16683-monarchs-of-life

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[-] 4 points by ChemLady (576) 10 years ago

Welcome to a lesson on evolution and extinction. I'm not talking about the butterfly. It's humanity that will face extinction. We can't seem to adapt to the environment any longer, instead we try to alter it without any understanding whatsoever.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

On the other hand, there was a pretty big march against Monsanto the other day.

Even as some were here arguing in their favor.

[-] 3 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

My son and I are planning to create a garden dedicated to both monarchs and the Karner Blue Butterfly. http://www.fws.gov/midwest/endangered/insects/kbb/kbb_fact.html

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Cool!!!

I wanna come by and take pictures when they start alighting.

[-] 2 points by GirlFriday (17435) 10 years ago

Sure, it won't be put in this year but more than likely next spring. I am currently trying to put together native plants with enough plants for Monarch adults. Only the larvae eat milkweed. But, you are absolutely more than welcome to come by and shoot.

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Every little bit counts........................:)

One of my favorite things to photograph are wild flowers and the bugs that land on them.

[-] 2 points by DKAtoday (33802) from Coon Rapids, MN 10 years ago

Destroying the world - more and more each day - corp(se)oRATions - business - industry - "GREED"

[-] 2 points by MattLHolck (16833) from San Diego, CA 10 years ago

why are those 2 butterflies wrestling on the ground ?

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

I think you need new glasses.

The butterfly's in both photos are on plants, not each other.

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Does everything have to be political?

Monsanto's involved.

Millions of orange and black wings, fluttering across Lake Erie was a site to behold.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 9 years ago

Of Monarch's, Monsanto and Milkweed.

"ANGANGUEO, Mexico - On a high mountain slope in central Mexico, a patch of fir trees looks dusted in orange and black. In fact, millions of monarch butterflies cloak the trees. The forest murmurs with the whir of their flapping wings.

Every year, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies - each so light that 50 together weigh barely an ounce - find their way on what may be the world's longest insect migration, traveling the length of North America to pass the winter in central Mexico.

Yet the great monarch migration is in peril, a victim of rampant herbicide use in faraway corn and soybean fields, extreme weather, a tiny microbial pathogen and deforestation. Monarch butterfly populations are plummeting. The dense colonies of butterflies on central Mexican peaks were far smaller this year than ever before."

http://www.truth-out.org/news/item/22869-the-butterfly-effect-do-monarchs-woes-signal-broader-problems

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Last Flight of the Monarchs?

An ongoing travesty.

"Valentine’s Day is usually prime mating time for these iconic beauties. But now their numbers are frighteningly down. How America’s gardeners can help save this remarkable butterfly."

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/14/last-flight-of-the-monarchs-a-plea-for-help-for-the-dying-butterflies.html

[-] 1 points by quantumystic (1710) from Memphis, TN 10 years ago

1st the bees now the butterflys we are fucking ourselves. do we even have brains? are we even conscious of the things we do?

[-] 2 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Who's we?

[-] 2 points by Builder (4202) 10 years ago

Those are the visible part of the extinctions.

Microbats, nectar-feeding birds, jewel beetles, wasps, hornets, gliders, possums, anything, in fact, that feeds on nectar, is under threat from our corporate control phreak phukkwit greedy arseholes.

[-] 2 points by gnomunny (6819) from St Louis, MO 10 years ago

Don't forget the bats:

http://batmanagement.com/wns/wns.html

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

Why would I do that Mr. munny?

http://www.batcon.org/

One of my favorite places to visit.

http://www.batconservation.org/education/live-animal-programs/visit-cranbrook-and-bat-zone

But like I've said already, I've actually witnessed the migration of many millions of monarch's, several times in my youth.

It's a thing of great beauty.

[-] 3 points by gnomunny (6819) from St Louis, MO 10 years ago

No need for formalities 'Mr. shooz.'

My comment was to Builder, actually. Being on the other side of the planet I wasn't sure he was aware of this problem.

One of my earliest recollections from our summer vacations as a kid was visiting Carlsbad Caverns. An amazing site, not just the cave itself, but seeing that swarm of bats come out of there at dusk was amazing.

[-] 2 points by Builder (4202) 10 years ago

Yah, microbats was my first call.

We have these tiny little guys that eat mosquitoes only. I've been building box homes for them for several years. They make a real difference.

[-] 1 points by shoozTroll (17632) 10 years ago

You tend to snap rather quickly Mr. munny. so I find the formalities in order.

There must have been a glitch, as I got your response in my alerts.

Sorry if I offended you.

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