Milkweed losses may not fully explain monarch butterfly declines

Tuesday, March 14, 2017 - 15:01 in Biology & Nature

Monarch butterfly declines cannot be attributed merely to declines in milkweed abundance, researchers report. The new research reviews decades of studies of monarchs and includes an in-depth analysis of milkweed populations at the heart of the butterflies' summer range.

Read the whole article on Science Daily

More from Science Daily

Latest Science Newsletter

Get the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free!

Check out our next project, Biology.Net