Bees, butterflies to get better habitat along Interstate 35
Source: Associated Press
May 26, 2016
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Six states and the Federal Highway Administration have agreed to make the roadsides along Interstate 35 friendlier for bees and butterflies to help the insects boost their declining populations.
The 1,500-mile stretch of road between northern Minnesota and southern Texas is a path for monarch butterflies that migrate between Mexico and Canada. Both the butterflies and bees pollinate plants that produce much of the nation's food.
Officials from Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas and the federal government signed an agreement Thursday to improve the habitat and develop a branding campaign informally naming the interstate the "Monarch Highway."
Honeybee and monarch butterfly populations have been dwindling in recent years.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/bees-butterflies-better-habitat-along-interstate-35-185726636.html
Mike__M
(1,052 posts)Weed control boards: you're next.
We got consideration for insect and other pollinators into the Agriculture section of our Dem. county platform last month.
jwirr
(39,215 posts)StarTrombone
(188 posts)Botany
(70,508 posts)BTW they did not include Wisconsin in this because Monarchs can not fly after having
brats and beer.
My favorite Kenyan, Socialist, Liberal President was behind this project.
http://www.xerces.org/ephemerals-may-2016/
Fuck the honeybee ... native pollinators is where it is at.