[Leps-l] NYTimes article on the NABA butterfly park

Charles Covell covell at louisville.edu
Sun Feb 13 23:18:30 EST 2022


Many thanks.  The photos are very heartening to see.

Cheers, Charlie

On Sun, Feb 13, 2022 at 7:45 PM Paul Cherubini <monarch at saber.net> wrote:

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> Most people familiar with the sudden decline attribute it to an external
> factor,
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> like near surface water contaminations by noenicitinoids… or airborne
> drift .
>
>
> Some butterflies continue to be abundant where neonicotinoid insecticides
> are used heavily on a region wide scale; e.g. on the corn & soybean
> croplands of the upper Midwest.
>
> Late last August 2021 I shot this video of monarchs migrating Southwest in
> south-central Minnesota at the rate of 20 butterflies per minute:
> https://youtu.be/Q1ugyulER6Q
>
> And in Sept. 2020 a farmer in south-central Minnesota shot this video of
> hundreds of monarch nectaring on some Liatris ligulistylis flowers
> he planted. https://youtu.be/CDun70cjAK0
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> Paul Cherubini
> El Dorado, Calif.
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