{"id":8536,"date":"2014-02-08T12:00:47","date_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8536"},"modified":"2014-02-08T12:00:47","modified_gmt":"2014-02-08T18:00:47","slug":"see-heres-the-thing%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.imagist.com\/blog\/?p=8536","title":{"rendered":"See. Here’s the thing\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I pick things up.<\/div>\n
I don’t know why.<\/div>\n
These things sit around for years. Decades even.<\/div>\n
Ann gifted me with a wonderful novel for christmas<\/div>\n
Flight Behavior<\/a> by Barbara Kingsolver.<\/div>\n
It’s about us; people; and monarch butterflies.
\nIt’s an important novel.<\/div>\n
It prompted me to photograph some stuff I picked up.<\/div>\n
Gifts. Really.<\/div>\n
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Leica R8\/DMR, 60 mm Macro Elmarit<\/div>\n
(click photograph for larger view)<\/div>\n
Monarch Butterfly Endangered<\/strong><\/div>\n
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The Monarch Butterfly population, as well as numerous other animal species, is suffering the effects of man-made events as well as the consequences of the \u201cglobal warming\u201d phenomenon.<\/p>\n

Scientists assert that the global climate change may cause the Monarch\u2019s over-wintering sites in Mexico to become wetter, and the spring and summer breeding areas of the United States west coast and mid-western agricultural belt to become warmer.\u00a0 As temperatures become too warm for this species, their summer migrations may take them even further northward.
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\nWill the Monarch Butterflies migrate a further distance south to the current locations?\u00a0 Since researchers started keeping records in the early 1900\u2019s the winter sites have not changed. Might temperature increases cause changes in their migratory patterns? \u00a0View the migration map here. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

The Monarch\u2019s winter home in the mountains of central Mexico is greatly threatened today by tremendous logging operations of the Fir tree forests.\u00a0 This deforestation and increased agricultural development in Mexico is causing great concern, and adding to the outcry that the Monarch Butterfly is becoming an endangered species.<\/p>\n

Along the populous areas of southern California many species of the Monarch Butterfly\u2019s roosting trees are disappearing, although the Eucalyptus tree is increasing in numbers for the butterflies.\u00a0 Local concerned groups are encouraging the conservation of trees for roosting, and the re-planting of milkweed plants for the females to lay eggs on in late winter and early spring.<\/p>\n

When semi-dormant in the winter the Monarchs need dense tree cover.\u00a0 And in the spring and summer breeding season they need abundant availability of milkweed plants.<\/p>\n

Although in North America the Monarch Butterflies are not considered an \u201cendangered\u201d or \u201cthreatened\u201d species, they are highly protected under law, especially around their wintering roosting sites.<\/p>\n

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