Tagged: monarch

Environment
9:28 am
Mon September 17, 2012

Drought affecting butterfly population in W. Ky.

Credit Wikimedia Commons
The female Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus)

A naturalist at Audubon State Park in Henderson is noticing another effect of the high heat and drought that has plagued western Kentucky, a dearth of monarch butterflies.  Julie McDonald says the butterflies are usually migrating through the area to Mexico by now, but she hasn't seen any yet.

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