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GiqueCee

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24. I haven't seen...

Fri Jul 18, 2025, 01:58 PM

Jul 18

... a single Monarch butterfly, even with the milkweed we have always maintained.
It's a shame that we keep poking holes in the intricate web of life, and especially that so many people are too dense and self-absorbed to recognize the interconnectedness, and the interdependency, of all living things, including us. Although I'm not sure where ticks or yellowjackets fit into it all... I really don't like those little buggers.
We're trashing the only planet we have, or ever will have, all so a few can make obscene bank at the expense of everyone else, including their own spawn. But their common refrain is, "What has posterity ever done for me?"
I am not a fan.

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No butterflies this year [View all] cyclonefence Jul 18 OP

... SheltieLover Jul 18 #1

Don't Rebl2 Jul 18 #2

I've got a lot of perennial coneflowers cyclonefence Jul 18 #5

butterflies Maninacan Jul 18 #3

Good to hear cyclonefence Jul 18 #4

No June bugs, some butterflies and only solitary bees. Ellipsis Jul 18 #6

Strange, no? peggysue2 Jul 18 #8

We have a hive of bumblebees under Bettie Jul 18 #11

I've seen exactly one Monarch butterfly Arger68 Jul 18 #7

It is alarmingly sad dugog55 Jul 18 #10

I used to have to wash my Arger68 Jul 18 #16

We're hatching Monarchs in our living room, as always. We've released at least 10 so far. Greybnk48 Jul 18 #9

Not many in Detroit. Kid Berwyn Jul 18 #12

We used to have goldfinches galore, none this year. cyclonefence Jul 18 #19

I've spent the past 15 yr turning my 1.5 acre yard into native prairie and woodland NickB79 Jul 18 #13

Same observation here. StarryNite Jul 18 #14

Not a lot of butterflies, but spiders, toads, fire ants JCMach1 Jul 18 #15

we have a lot of butterflies, bees WhiteTara Jul 18 #17

I've noticed that too in southern New Hampshire. I've seen a couple, but not like in past summers. There aren't Vinca Jul 18 #18

Sad, where do you live? lark Jul 18 #20

We noticed that here in south-central New Mexico, too duhneece Jul 18 #21

SE PA cyclonefence Jul 18 #23

Yes, we are in the 6th mass extinction Nigrum Cattus Jul 18 #22

I haven't seen... GiqueCee Jul 18 #24