I swear Americans will do anything to avoid using the metric system.
I saw millions and millions of them once while driving home from work in Rancho Cordova California. An amazing site, right up there with seeing the Northern Lights.
I had a monarch fly through my yard right after I planted some flowers.
Of course, before the squirrels ate the milkweed I was trying to grow, I didn’t see a single monarch. Milkweed is supposed to be their favorite food.
They are migrating right now.
The only reason euros use the metric system is their weenies seem bigger in centimeters.
“The breakthrough is the result of a tiny solar-powered radio tag that weighs just 60 milligrams and sells for $200.”
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“But we’ll never use these to track humans. No sir!”
The 1950s Popular Science cover stories of flying cars and commuting to cities on the Moon didn’t work out.
But we can put sensors on butterflies.
Solar Powered?
So, if the Sun does not shine, will they have to fly many airplanes over the Monarchs with huuuuge floodlights to power the tracker?
I have seen a few this year. I am always amazed how the little buggers make that kind of migration.
I can say with some hard-earned authority that the big challenge with the above is that bugs are not capable of extended dormancy as are plants. If the plants stop germinating and fruiting, no bugs. No bugs, no birds. That's how it works. The problem is worldwide. The mass of bugs in Germany is down 75% over the last 30 years.
Perhaps the most destructive element in this ugly equation is that leftists are in love with "preserving the environment" thus precluding all disturbance necessary for the germination and flowering of native annual plants. They also hate herbicides necessary to get a grip on those weeds the bugs can't eat. It's a bad scene.
So if anybody reading this wants to help me get ahold of Mr. Zinke I can explain the preliminary steps in getting out of this ugly mess.
We’ve had several come through our place this year.
Pretty cool they can track a butterfly as it is smashed on a windshield.
New!
But you know what we can’t track, right New York Times? Huh? Huh?
Probably borrowing the same technology they used to find all the Jan6 people.
Now this is the kind of interesting semi-useful government spending I can get behind. We could do lots of this stuff just from the FRAUD found in the SNAP program.
But we do not know the location of mllions of illegal aliens.
The Butterflies probably wish all these busy body do gooder people would just Bug Off, stop messing with their wings.
We have had a milkweed patch for over 15 years. This year is the first year we have had Monarch caterpillars in more than 10 years. At one point, there were 14 monarchs in process. Interesting to watch. If it matters, it has been 3 years since they took the roundup ready crops out of the adjacent fields. A wealthy man bought the farm fields with the idea of farming but he is too busy to get around to taking care of them.
First, why?
Second, I think decades of people following monarchs already know.
It’s like “we can now follow the swans going to Capistrano”.
Which is legend.