watched for an hour because the citing was so rare. I usually have so many I can hardly count them just a few short years ago.

I saw two funky white(ish) butterflies last summer but no Monarchs.

Hardly ever see them any more.

Yeah, that sounds about right: 90% decline in the past 20 years.

Fireflies are more rare, too.

I have noticed they seem to be less common nowadays. I used to see a lot more of them perhaps 15 years ago. Over the last few years I have only seen one or two each summer, sometimes none at all. I'm not surprised to hear they're now endangered.

(Not that the sheep or the cheerleaders will pay any attention but WTH.)

It is no secret that Roundup is poison. I wish Monsanto execs would be forced to eat crops that have been treated with this stuff. Not only good for justice, good for cancer research, too, as there would be many more high profile cases as well.

He sprays it over everything.

Last year I had a huge flock? swarm? of gold and brown butterflies descend in a whiling mass onto one of my maple trees. They stayed for about 30 minutes than flew straight back up. I thought they would spread out and go to my neighbor's property. But no, they went straight up. That night on the local news they reported a swarm? or flock so big that it showed up on radar.

I'm hoping it was monarchs migrating. I'm leaving a field fallow with no sheep grazing this year so the milk weed grows thick.

Thanks Monsanto.

My opinion is that all of the gluten intolerance we are currently experiencing stems from roundup ready wheat with its gene splicing and gut probiotic destroying formulations. Corn is even worse.

Americans didn't suddenly collectively develop celiac disease.

I'll bet a human wouldn't last long on high fructose corn syrup and fake wheat.

Poor butterflies. Harbingers of our own demise.

And field margins are the last widespread places left for the Monarchs.

That said,
Everyone needs to make an effort to plant Milkweed. It makes a very nice looking garden plant and it is perennial.