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Create Monarch Butterfly Waystations In Your Backyard
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Every year, hundreds of millions of monarch butterflies perilously journey from the United States and Canada to overwintering areas in Mexico and California, making it one of the world's greatest wildlife migrations. Help protect monarchs by creating monarch waystations (monarch habitats) by planting milkweed in home gardens and other spaces.
Monarch Waystations are places that provide resources necessary for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration. Without milkweeds throughout their spring and summer breeding areas in North America, monarchs would not be able to produce the successive generations that culminate in the migration each fall.
Similarly, without nectar from flowers these fall migratory monarch butterflies would be unable to make their long journey to overwintering grounds in Mexico. The need for host plants for larvae and energy sources for adults applies to all monarch and butterfly populations around the world.
Click here to learn more about creating Monarch waystations in your backyard. Brought to you by iConservePa.org.
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6/14/2010 |
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