Pennsylvania deepens its commitment to the monarch butterfly
Updated Jan 29, 2021;
Posted Jan 29, 2021
A monarch butterfly flies from flower to flower to feed at Cape May Point State Park in Lower Township, N.J., Friday, Oct. 2, 2020.Lori M. Nichols | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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The Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources recently joined the Monarch Joint Venture, a group of federal and state agencies, non-governmental organizations, businesses, and academic programs working to protect the migration of the monarch butterfly across the U.S.
DCNR already promotes populations, including that of the monarch, through habitat creation and education and is in the process of expanding programs to more directly support the butterfly.
Monarch butterflies can’t seem to catch a break
Updated Dec 16, 2020;
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The announcement by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday that the monarch butterfly qualifies for threatened or endangered species status but will have to wait until at least 2024 to be listed under the Endangered Species Act was just the latest in an abundance of bad news for the declining insect.
A dearth of monarchs was noted by many Pennsylvanians this summer, part of a general lack of butterflies across the state. Some species showed a bit of a rebound in late summer, but 2020 was definitely a noticeably poor year for butterflies.