Monarch butterflies flutter closer toward extinction
Monarch populations have gone down between 22% and 72% over the past 10 years, one global environmental group estimates.
By Sarah Stark
Monarch butterflies flutter closer toward extinction
Monarch populations have gone down between 22% and 72% over the past 10 years, one global environmental group estimates.
By Sarah Stark
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The International Union for Conservation of Nature has declared the monarch butterfly as endangered. Chicagoans are seeing firsthand how sparse the local summer population has become, but the black-and-orange butterfly is still not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act.
Reset turns to a local entomology expert to learn more.
GUEST: Allen Lawrence, associate curator of entomology at the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum