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Have you noticed that we don’t see as many monarch butterflies as we used to.
Monarchs are disappearing. Their numbers have crashed 90% since 1992, mainly because milkweed plants – the only source of food for monarch caterpillars – are also disappearing.
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To help, employees at Ford’s Essex Engine Plant in Windsor, Canada, along with local residents and student volunteers, worked together to harvest seeds from milkweed pods that were collected from a section of Ford property that has been transformed to mimic the natural landscape. These, along with seeds from local butterfly advocate Leo “The Milkweed Man” Silvestri, will be distributed throughout the area by the Monarch Butterfly Enthusiasts of Windsor and are expected to produce hundreds of thousands of new milkweed plants.
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The Essex Engine Plant is also exploring becoming certified as an official Monarch Waystation, a place that provides the necessary resources for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain migration.
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