Warn the president: Monarch's near Mexico City are about to invade America!

[mfcorey1]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/monarch-butterflies-are-at-risk-of-extinction-and-that-could-threaten-humans-too/

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Later this spring and summer, three generations of monarchs should blanket the entire United States east of the Rockies. Then in mid-August a special super-generation will fly all the way back to Mexico to these very same mountains. That means the butterflies they saw are the great-great-grandchildren of the butterflies that were there last winter.

Just a few years ago, Rendon worried he might be seeing the last generation because between 1994 and 2016, this eastern monarch population plunged more than 80 percent and a federal review found "a substantial probability" of collapse in the next two decades.

[Thekaspervote]

1. Yeah.. those nasty Mexican loving butterflies... I tell ya....can't trust em

[Brother Buzz]

2. If any of them want to swing west and join the Western migration, we'll welcome them

Monarch butterflies found in California overwintering sites has decreased by 89 percent from the last year, going from 148,000 to only 30,000 butterflies. This marks an overall a 96 percent drop from the 1980s, where 10 million monarchs made the trip annually. Scientists are debating as to whether the butterflies have passed the point of no return, and if there is anything that can be done to help.

I'm really bummed by this bit of bad news. I have fond memories of visiting a Monarch grove near my childhood home. The numbers started started dropping off through the sixties and seventies, and continues to dwindle for decades until the last few years when the population appeared to stabilize. We even started to seeing small upticks some years then....BAM...the population just collapsed.

[BigmanPigman]

3. Someone else just posted about the monarchs disappearing in CA.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/104020946

My sister raises them here in CA and noticed the sharp decline.

[UniteFightBack]

4. Anybody who has a house please plant milkweed for the monarchs...!!! nt

[BSdetect]

5. There can only be one monarch and that is drumph's intent.