#NewThisDay Writing From My Photo Stream
“No milkweed, no monarch butterflies
Perhaps the greatest challenge to the monarch butterfly, though, is the depletion of the milkweed plant, which serves as their food, breeding ground and habitat while travelling north. The herbaceous plant, which grows throughout the butterflies migration route, has been disappearing thanks to urban development and the aggressive use of weed control on American farms.”
https://www.newsweek.com/monarch-butterflies-extinct-1302838