More Butterflies are Missing–UPDATE
2004-08-27
We’re beginning to notice that there arefewerbutterflies around this year. People who monitor Monarchbutterflies in Minnesota blame it on less milkweed, which isthe butterflies’ favorite food and the only place they laytheir eggs, but they don’t know why there’s less of itaround than there used to be.
Butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser says, “There’s adisturbing indication that [the population] is going down,because we’ve had three low years [of milkweed growth] in arow. It’s kind of a complicated problem because there’s notone smoking gun.”
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