Encouraging early Monarch Report from Mexico

[Stanley A. Gorodenski]

Although the sentiments are good, this implied proposal, if I understand it
correctly, could be a rather expensive, inefficient, and risky method to keep
our biodiversity, i.e., artificially rear Monarchs to compensate for the human
destruction of the feeding and overwintering habitats This could quickly become
unwieldable if the same consideration is given to all other organisms, as it
should be, that are suffering a similar fate of habitat loss from human
development..

Lili Pintea-Reed wrote:

> Well I like to think that all the extra rearing and releases every hobby and
> professional breeder did last year helped somehow. All the dingy girls who
> wanted butterfly weddings. All the farmers who left little patches of
> milkweed by the corn. All the petro guys who left milkweed around their rigs
> in TX. All those school kids raising extra monarchs. And all the biology
> professors who had interns raising extra monarchs in the back of the lab
> (you soft hearted bug guys... caught ya...). Hows the math work for that??
> Lil


 
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