Milkweeds make Monarchs

Bonus fun fact: If you don’t know by now, I really like monarchs and I’m concerned about their well-being. Did you know it takes about 28.5 milkweed stems to produce one adult monarch that will be part of the fall migration? That means we need an additional 1.8 billion (billion with a ‘b’) milkweeds in the Midwest to support a sustainable and healthy monarch population. That’s a lot of milkweeds! If you want to help by planting a patch of milkweeds at your house, or by adding more milkweeds to an existing patch of habitat, let me know. I’ll fix you up.

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