Monarch butterflies
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A number of my neighbors have planted milkweed to help support the monarch butterflies that move through our area. Always fun to see them feeding! The butterflies, that is, not the neighbors.
The number of monarch butterflies overwintering this year in Mexico has nearly doubled, according to the annual census released last week by the World Wildlife Fund in Mexico and their partners.
During the last few months in 2025, the population of eastern monarchs occupied 4.42 acres of central Mexico’s forests—up from 2.22 acres during the previous winter.
The encouraging survey was conducted with help from Mexico’s National Commission of Protected Natural Areas and local communities, and it serves as an important indicator of the health of a monarch population that has been clawing its way back from dangerously low levels this century.
The docuseries I posted about in the What are you watching thread had a segment on the monarchs. Spectacular!
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I like the idea of watching butterflies feed but around here we mostly watch the neighbors.
And mostly in taverns.
