We have a prairie meadow with three kinds of native milkweed. Unfortunately we are surrounded by over-insecticided farms and tracts of homes sitting in stands of sterile monocultures of lawn grass. The Monarchs really need the continuous miles of wild plants that used to grow along roads and between fields but are now ‘weed’ killer sprayed and mowed out of existence. Over the decades we have seen fewer and fewer butterflies and as well as all other pollinators. Last summer I saw a total of three Monarchs. Sad, very sad.
We have a prairie meadow with three kinds of native milkweed. Unfortunately we are surrounded by over-insecticided farms and tracts of homes sitting in stands of sterile monocultures of lawn grass. The Monarchs really need the continuous miles of wild plants that used to grow along roads and between fields but are now ‘weed’ killer sprayed and mowed out of existence. Over the decades we have seen fewer and fewer butterflies and as well as all other pollinators. Last summer I saw a total of three Monarchs. Sad, very sad.