Before You Use Roundup this Spring Consider What You are Doing to Monarch Butterflies
Extracted From http://www.livescience.com/43678-milkweed-and-monarchs-disappearing.html"Monarchs are in trouble. Scientists announced this year that the monarch migration — a near-miraculous event, spanning multiple generations over 3,000 miles in a single season — is in danger of disappearing. And there is broad agreement in the scientific community that glyphosate is a major part of the problem."
RoundUp contains glyphosate.
"One of the plants it [glyphosphate] is wiping out is milkweed, the sole source of food for monarch butterfly larvae. The only plant on which a monarch will lay its eggs."
SEMPBA will send you free, locally harvested milkweed seeds if you promise to plant them. Email SEMPBA@pinebarrensalliance.org for seeds and growing instructions.
Not all milkweed is native to SE Massachusetts. Go here to see what species of milkweed to plant in your area: http://www.bonap.org/BONAPmaps2010/Asclepias.html
