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What happened to Monarch Butterflies?


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Saw in the Chronicle today that State Comptroller Glenn Hegar approved funds to study Monarch Butterfly decline. A quick search of Internet showed plenty of articles concerning Monarch decline. I have only seen a very few this Spring and Summer-- so Are they disappearing from Houston?

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Saw in the Chronicle today that State Comptroller Glenn Hegar approved funds to study Monarch Butterfly decline. A quick search of Internet showed plenty of articles concerning Monarch decline. I have only seen a very few this Spring and Summer-- so Are they disappearing from Houston?

 

I was actually thinking about this a few weeks ago. When I really young in the 90's, they were everywhere around this time of year. Now, I may see only a few in the entire year.

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I live where Montrose meets Midtown in Avondale and really planted the milkweeds in my yard--and other flowering plants I thought might attract butterflies. In the past few years it seemed like I usually could see a few each day every day. Not really none so far this year-- I thought it might be the the huge rains but I did some more surfing on internet-

http://ens-newswire.com/2015/04/06/insecticide-blamed-for-monarch-butterfly-decline/

 

Now I'm wondering if milkweed flourishes in Texas or Oklahoma or Kansas (etc etc etc) pastures anymore.

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