[Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon

[Paul Cherubini]

On Feb 16, 2013, at 8:09 AM, Jim Wiker (Illinois) wrote:

> I can tell you there is quite a drop in weeds of all kinds,
> nothing but rank grasses grow in our ditches now....
> ..nothing, no color at all. 

Jim, in the neighboring states of Minnesota and Iowa I 
havn't had much trouble finding flowers and pollinators 
in the ditches that border the corn and soybean fields:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7owV6o6xNWM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrvwUT29NN4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9LT_8Bt9RY

What I often find is that a ditch that initially looks like
it's filled only with grass actually has other plants, 
including flowering weeds if I get out of my car
and take a closer look.  

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.