(Found this beautiful picture by Kenneth Dwain Harrelson on Wikipedia, licensed for non-profit use under the Creative Commons 3.0.)
Bayer and Monsanto merged…..
Millions of kilos of glyphosate being dumped into the world ecology without any real restrictions….
This Spring we planted fifty sprouted milkweed plants in our back yard, and several hundred seeds around the “waste spaces” in our neighbourhood. (Many are growing well, both from sprouts and seeds.)
I have seen exactly ONE Monarch this entire year so far. There was ONE small clutch of eggs on ONE of the milkweed plants, and I have since counted only five caterpillars on them.
I miss the masses of Monarchs which used to rest in the trees around our place. That was true beauty.
Sadness comes on silent wings.