Former logger and defender of the region’s monarch butterfly was found floating in a well on Wednesday, Jan. 29, 2020. Homero Gómez González went missing on Jan. 13. His disappearance sent a shockwave through environmental conservationists’ communities in the U.S. and Mexico. Search teams were created by local authorities and the state district attorney launched […]
Monarch butterflies are disappearing all over North America, a massacre that is worrying the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, as almost a billion have disappeared since 1990. Farmers and homeowners all over the United States have been spraying herbicides on milkweed plants, essentially becoming responsible for the monarch butterfly’s massacre. By spraying the milkweed plant, […]
Monarch butterflies, in the thousands, travel from North America to central Mexico each year in the fall and a recent study has shown that they use the Earth’s magnetic field to guide their way on their long journey. How monarch butterflies know where to go on this long-distance journey has been a wonder for many. […]
