ARCHITECTURE
IDEAS
CABINS
Wild Woodz 
CATEGORIES
POPULAR
Nature Animals
People Craft
Science Design
Jump to WildWoodz
Glass tabletops are the best option for renewing existing coffee tables while round tabletops and rectangle-glass-tabletops are perfect for decorating ...
Modern Coffee Table Styles with Table Tops
Glass tabletops are the best option for renewing existing coffee tables while round tabletops and rectangle-glass-tabletops are perfect for decorating ...
Plexiglass is a great alternative to glass. Let's explore the applications in which plexiglass is preferred over ordinary glass.
Top 5 Situations When Application of Plexiglass is Preferred over Glass
Plexiglass is a great alternative to glass. Let's explore the applications in which plexiglass is preferred over ordinary glass.
Interior designs for homes and other spaces are changing faster than one can imagine. Sometimes, it gets too difficult to ...
Difference Between wooden base cabinets & glass cabinets (New Concept Glass Cabinets Design)
Interior designs for homes and other spaces are changing faster than one can imagine. Sometimes, it gets too difficult to ...
Scandinavian design is normally compared to mid-century modern design. While they are known to borrow details from each other, color ...
DIY Nordic wood designs
Scandinavian design is normally compared to mid-century modern design. While they are known to borrow details from each other, color ...
For the love of woodz, craft and nature.
 
Share
Monarch Butterfly Populations Are Once Again On The Rise
In Animals by Anja, April 29, 2016

After 20 years of decline, the number of these beauties is finally recovering. The amount of monarch butterflies staying in Mexico this winter went up dramatically, increasing in area by 255 percent over last year.

Monarch Butterfly Populations Are Again On The Rise

“Monarch Butterfly“ by Liz West is licensed under CC BY 2.0

Populations of monarchs are measured in acres due to their migration patterns. In Eastern North America, monarchs spread across the United States and Canada in the warmer months, but migrate back to Mexico as winter approaches, clustering back into a small section of forest. Their populations coat the trees and branches so thoroughly that researchers measure the area of land covered instead of trying to count individual butterflies.

This year, the area covered measures almost 10 acres, which is a lot more than the 2,8 acres from last year

That’s optimistic news for researchers hoping to see the population once again meet its 1996 peak of 44.5 acres. The monarch population hit its low in the winter of 2013 and 2014 when the area covered by butterflies was a slender 1.6 acres.

Monarch Butterfly Populations Are Again On The Rise

“Monarch Butterflies wintering in the Monarch Grove Sanctuary in Pacific Grove, California” by Agunther is licensed under CC BY 3.0

“We are seeing the beginning of success,” Daniel Ashe, director of the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, told the New York Times. “Our task now is to continue building on that success.”

Monarch butterflies continue to face threats, mostly a decline in habitat in Mexico due to illegal logging, and a loss of their preferred food, milkweed, along their route through North America. They actually will need to find milkweed plants, which is the only plant they can lay their eggs on because that’s the only plant the caterpillars can feed on.

Thankfully, there are new programs in place to establish milkweed planting, and the public is very much urged to do so.

Monarch Butterfly Populations Are Again On The Rise

“Monarch Butterflies in Mexico“ by Luna sin estrellas is licensed under CC BY 2.0

H/T to popsci; KZEP

Reshare our content with appropriate credit:
- via Woodz.co (must include a link to the article)
- if it exists, give h/t (specified at the end of our articles)

Leave a Reply

So, what do you think?

avatar
wpdiscuz_captcharefresh
avatar
wpdiscuz_captcharefresh
  Subscribe  
Notify of
Latest
Sustainability, respect for the mountains and direct contact with nature are the principles that have guided all design choices. For ...
9 Dec 2021
Hotel Zallinger
Glass tabletops are the best option for renewing existing coffee tables while round tabletops and rectangle-glass-tabletops are perfect for decorating ...
27 May 2021
Modern Coffee Table Styles with Table Tops
With great views of the golf course and the magnificent trees in the environment. The design of the project follows ...
6 May 2021
GP House
Plexiglass is a great alternative to glass. Let's explore the applications in which plexiglass is preferred over ordinary glass.
12 Apr 2021
Top 5 Situations When Application of Plexiglass is Preferred over Glass
The steep forested hillsides around the Hardangerfjord above Odda is the location of two Woodnest treehouses. The architecture is a ...
3 Feb 2021
Woodnest Cabin – Treehouse
RELATED POSTS
Ingo and Poldi are best friends; there is no doubt in that. The only strange part is that Ingo is ...
Meet Ingo and Poldi: Most Unusual Friends
Oscar, a death-sensing cat, predicted deaths of more than a hundred patients in a nursing home's advanced dementia unit.
Oscar the Incredible Death-Sensing Cat
In the Southwest Indian state of Karnataka, a beautiful 300-acre forest serves as a sanctuary for animals such as Bengal ...
Couple Proves Nature Can Be Healed By Transforming Barren Land Into Sanctuary
Architecture Wild Woodz About Us
Ideas Terms & Privacy
Cabins Contact
For the love of wood, craft and nature.
Copyright © 2015-2023 Woodz. All Rights Reserved.