The decline of bee populations has gotten a lot of national attention, but a more flamboyant pollinator is garnering local support for rehabilitation: the monarch butterfly.
“They’re iconic,” said local conservationist and monarch-enthusiast Becky Yeager. “It reminds us of generations past, and there are a lot of older people who love to tell stories about how they grew up with monarchs.”
They’ve been flying around since early June, but the population has been decreasing at an alarming rate for the past three decades, according to Amanda Barth, the rare-insect conservation coordinator for Utah’s Division of Natural Resources. Read the rest of this story on HJnews.com.
This story is made possible thanks to a community reporting partnership between The Herald Journal and Utah Public Radio.
