{"id":310,"date":"2018-11-20T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/?p=310"},"modified":"2018-11-08T14:16:59","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T20:16:59","slug":"magical-and-mysterious-monarchs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2018\/11\/20\/magical-and-mysterious-monarchs\/","title":{"rendered":"Magical and Mysterious  Monarchs"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><span style=\"color: #000080\">&#8220;The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature but of ourselves.&#8221; Rachel Carson<\/span><\/h4>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-312 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/monarch-close-up-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/monarch-close-up-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/monarch-close-up-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/monarch-close-up-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">Monarch on\u00a0 tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>According to a news article published in Cottage Life magazine in 2017,\u00a0 Jennifer Tremeer of the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory\u00a0 attributes the\u00a0 drastic decline in the monarch butterfly population\u00a0 to the planting of genetically modified crops resistant to herbicides, habitat loss, and severe weather.\u00a0 This pollinator population, tracked by scientists since 1994, teeters on the verge of extinction.\u00a0 While some may see the loss of one species as a triviality,\u00a0 the reality is this species is representative of all pollinator species that may face the same fate. \u00a0 The US Fish and Wildlife Service reminds us that these diminutive creatures pollinate 75% of the food we consume, including <em>chocolate<\/em> and <em>coffee<\/em>! Well, that&#8217;s certainly worth one&#8217;s attention!<\/p>\n<p>Remember John Muir&#8217;s observation, <em>&#8220;When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.&#8221;\u00a0 Individual efforts to help the monarch can be accomplished\u00a0 through avoiding the use of pesticides, planting milkweed\u00a0 plants, found at local garden centers; and\u00a0 by maintaining wild milkweed\u00a0 varieties in the landscape. Milkweed serves as the host plant for monarch caterpillar larvae as well as a nectar source for adult monarchs. \u00a0 Learn more about this fall visitor by clicking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nwf.org\/Educational-Resources\/Wildlife-Guide\/Invertebrates\/Monarch-Butterfly\"><strong>here<\/strong>.<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The human race is challenged more than ever before to demonstrate our mastery not over nature but of ourselves.&#8221; Rachel Carson &nbsp; Monarch on\u00a0 tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica &nbsp; According to a news article published in Cottage Life magazine in 2017,\u00a0 Jennifer Tremeer of the Cambridge Butterfly Conservatory\u00a0 attributes the\u00a0 drastic decline in the monarch &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/2018\/11\/20\/magical-and-mysterious-monarchs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Magical and Mysterious  Monarchs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":316,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310\/revisions\/316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepmobilebeautiful.org\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}