This Hot Summer Is Hard on More than Your Lawn — It's Hurting Food Sources for Monarch Butterflies

This hot summer is hard on more than your lawn — it's hurting food sources for monarch butterflies

Extreme heat and dry weather is killing off food sources for monarch butterflies, an expert warns. The lack of food will make fall migration for the endangered pollinators particularly difficult said an expert.

Monarchs, milkweed and migration

LITTLE ROCK — A pollinator admired for its beauty and migratory endurance, monarch butterflies are being proposed for addition as an endangered species. Some in Arkansas are supporting these highly recognizable insects as they migrate and breed. In December, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service proposed that the monarch be protected under the Endangered Species Act. The […]