Magnificent Monarch Migration.

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  • Author(s): Oder, Tom
  • Source:
    Mother Earth News. Dec2023/JAn2024, Issue 321, p32-37. 6p.
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    • Subject Terms:
      BUTTERFLY migration; MONARCH butterfly; BUTTERFLY gardening; MILKWEEDS; HONEY plants; NATIVE plant gardening; POLLINATORS; CLIMATE change
    • Abstract:
      From left: A caterpillar feeds on butterfly weed in Delaware.A monarch chrysalis hangs from the leaf of a redswamp milkweed. "Germinating milkweed seeds isn't like when you were backin elementary school and stuck a bean in a cup and cameback a few weeks later and you had this tall plant", saysShubber Ali, CEO of Garden for Wildlife(www.GardenForWildife.com), an online native plantbusiness in which a portion of proceeds benefit the NWF'snational conservation habitat education program. A Hardy Traveler According to Rebeca Quiñonez-Piñón,the National WildlifeFederation's (NWF) monarch recoverystrategist, monarch butterflies generallyonly live 28 to 32 days, but thegeneration that migrates is different. Milkweed not only provides nectarto adult monarchs, but it's also the onlyplant monarch caterpillars can eat, sincethe plant and butterfly species have coevolvedtogether. [Extracted from the article]
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