South Texas Butterfly Sanctuary Threatened By Trump's Border Wall

NPR ^ | December 3, 20185:23 PM ET | Sam Gringlas

[IronJack]

Are we planning to hold America bostave to a bunch of butterflies?

[Noamie]

Solution: Erect large solar panel farm. Burn them to a crisp. Once they are all dead, erect wall.

[butlerweave]

Maybe the Butterflies would Love a Wall

[blueunicorn6]

Wait a minute!

There was just an article about how CNN wants us to eat bugs.

Now, they’re worried about some butterflies having to get a realtor?

I call baloney!

What does CNN want us to do?

Move the butterflies to Atlanta so they can eat them?

Filthy butterfly biters.

[AFret.]

First it was Snowflakes, now Butterflies...what’s next?

[Sacajaweau]

The GoFundMe scam is alive and well.

[Puppage]

God forbid they fly OVER the wall!

[TLI]

The letter and accompanying maps also outlined a 150-foot-wide “enforcement zone” south of the wall, where “all vegetation… will be cleared.”

But these walls and this open space is OK...

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[John S Mosby]

Butterflies can fly-— OVER the wall and THROUGH any fence-— to follow their mating pheremones through the air.

This is NOT a challenge to their habitat.

This BS is sort of like the crapola against the Alaskan Oil Pipeline heating up the tundra permafrost and killing off the Elk. The warm pipelines (warm oil flowing through it) actually ATTRACTED the elk and other critters to the pipeline area— where they SURVIVED supercold winters and increased their population as a result. The data on this is irrefutable.

Butterflies will not be wiped out by a wall/fence.

[Sequoyah101]

Oh horseshit. Butterflies are free. They can fly. Fly away.

[R_Kangel]

...... Just build the wall up to the sanctuary borders ..... After a month or so of stampeding Illegals destroying the beloved Butterfly Sanctuary .... They will be begging to have the wall built

[dfwgator]

Now I’ve got that Elton John song in my head.

[gspurlock]

If they move the flowers to the U.S. side of the wall, the butterflies will follow. Um, they know how to fly.

I move plants around in my garden all of the time and they do just fine. Each year I get more butterflies and even now some hummingbirds.

[John S Mosby]

Correction— in Alaska that was the migrating Caribou population— they hung around when calving— and the baby caribou had a huge survival rate vs. freezing to death or getting isolated and killed by wolves, coyotes and bear.

an answers.com Question/answer: http://www.answers.com/Q/Did_the_alaskan_pipeline_have_an_effect_on_the_caribou_population

[relictele]

The clue’s in the name - butterflies as in flies as in fly as in three-dimensional travel.

NPR is sad and desperate - and juvenile.

[hal ogen]

So butterflies can fly. Move their “preserve”. Anyway, I bet some of them are illegal alien invader butterflies. Catch and deport them.

[Cicero]

Well, before we go any further, we ought to consider the parasites and germs that live on those butterflies. What about them? What will the Wall do to THEM?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

If those butterflies REALLY sought sanctuary, they would be in San Francisco. Does anybody really believe they are seeking sanctuary in TEXAS?

[max americana]

hand me a flamethrower and ill burn the stupid butterflies.

No more problems..

[GingisK]

Everybody knows that butterflies can't go over walls. Besides, I don't care if butterfly families are separated. They can start new ones on both sides of the wall they can't freely overfly.

What a crock.