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🦋 Climate Change Impact on Butterflies 🦋

Climate change drastically affects pollinators 🐝

🌞As temperatures rise due to climate change, butterflies with lighter-colored wings are having more difficulty regulating their body temperature, leading to stress, disease, and even death.

🌞 Climate change is having a devastating impact on butterflies in many other ways, too.

🌞 Higher than normal temperatures also hinder the growth and quality of milkweed, the plant that Monarch caterpillars feed on.

🌞 Current predictions indicate that milkweed populations will need to shift poleward to find the appropriate growing conditions.

🌞 This raises the current concerns about
whether the Monarch Butterflies will be able to adapt successfully to these changing sites and environments.

🌞 Furthermore, it is thought that if the milkweed’s range expands further from the hibernation/breeding
ground then the butterflies’ reproductive activity will decline.

🌞 This would consequently mean that the butterflies would need to migrate longer
distances, reducing the time spent at the breeding grounds.

(Butterfly , pollinators , climate action )

#butterfly #climatechangeisreal #climateactionnow #sadsongs #depressing

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