[Leps-l] Finally Announced: The size of the Mexican monarch overwintering colonies this past winter.

[Kim Sheahan]

The first video is Meadow Blazing Star production field which is a native blooming flower. He says plant it and it will come.  Liatris or Blazing Star is well known as a butterfly nectar plant.

From: Leps-l [mailto:leps-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Cherubini
Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2022 4:03 PM
To: leps-l at mailman.yale.edu
Subject: Re: [Leps-l] Finally Announced: The size of the Mexican monarch overwintering colonies this past winter.

An ironic reality is the GMO crop monocultures of the upper Midwest
are where some of the most spectacular examples of monarch
abundance can STILL be filmed.

Example: the GMO corn and soybean monocultures of south-central
Minnesota last summer on Sept 1:

https://twitter.com/DustinDemmer/status/1433077655495184397

And on Aug. 29 last summer monarchs were filmed migrating across a
south-central Minnesota farmland highway, against a southwesterly
headwind, at the rate of 20 per minute: https://youtu.be/Q1ugyulER6Q

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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