There Were 1 Billion Monarch Butterflies. Now There Are 93 Million.

[lordsummerisle]

Charles Pierce, esquire.com

WASHINGTON—On Tuesday evening, outside of what we veteran Beltway newshounds call the Gohmert Side of the Capitol, the Congressional Pollinator Protection Caucus, which is an actual thing, held a bipartisan twilight event that involved the release of 50 monarch butterflies into the darkening sky. One of them alighted on a little boy's shoulder and stayed there for quite a long time. The little boy got his picture taken by everyone. This was a nice moment. As Rep. Marcy Kaptur, Democrat of Ohio, said, "We should all be able to agree on butterflies."

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/amp23472939/monarch-butterflies-endangered-pesticides-climate-change/?__twitter_impression=true

[dameatball]

1. Sad stuff.

[Cattledog]

2. Canary in the coal mine.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Thanks Monsanto.

[Bayard]

4. I would still see 5 or 6 in the garden the past several years

This summer--one.

Remember when you were a kid and they were everywhere?

[NickB79]

5. I have hundreds right now in my yard

But I have converted 1/4 acre to native prairie restoration, and never apply pesticides.