Expanding on its efforts to save honey bee populations from extinction, the Obama administration's Pollinator Health Task Force now aims to create and maintain a 1,500-mile wildlife corridor along Interstate 35 for Monarch butterflies migrating between Mexico and Minnesota. The highway corridor will hopefully help increase Monarch butterfly populations in the central US, where food producers need bees and other pollinators to help grow their crops.
The new effort focuses on one migratory pathway Monarchs take during the year. Butterflies who winter in Mexico travel up through Texas during the spring, while subsequent generations make their way to Canada before eventually dispersing. Later generations travel back down the same route...
The White House is creating a butterfly highway between Mexico and Minnesota
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