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Migratory Monarch Butterfly

  • This is a sub-species of the monarch butterfly that travels around 4,000 kilometres across America each year, has been classified ‘endangered’ in the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List.
  • Monarchs, the most recognisable species of butterfly, are important pollinators and provide various ecosystem services such as maintaining the global food web.
  • The population of these butterflies has declined by more than 72 percent in the past decade, habitat destruction and climate change are mainly responsible for pushing the insect towards extinction.
  • The increasing use of pesticides for intensive agriculture is harming the milkweed plant used by these butterflies as food. They breed in only one particular plant-the milkweeds.
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