Monarch Butterfly Population Down 75 Percent. "The Mexican government said the decline was due to a number of factors, including an unusually cold summer in the United States and a high mortality rate for the butterflies in Mexico in 2003 due to cold, wet conditions."
The other "factors" were farming in the US and Canada, the use of pesticides in the US and Canada and the US of bio-engineered plants in the US. It had nothing to do with illegal logging in the Mexican habitat for the butterflies. Interesting to not that the Mexican Enviros are blaming the Mexican government.
In 2001, we thought the Monarch population would decrease because of COLD weather, but they did not. However, the latest round of cold weather took it's toll. Just when I thought global warming was destroying all life on the planet, we now find out we need some (localized) global warming to save the Monarch. Go Figure.
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