body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background -color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;} Thanks to Ellis Laudermilk, invertebrate biologist with the Ky. State Nature Preserves Commission, for forwarding this interesting question-and-answer article by Yale University's e360. It involves Chip Taylor, one of the long-time experts on Monarch butterflies. Some of you who have branched out beyond feathered creatures may have noticed the near total absence of Monarchs this year. Chip explains some of the reasons why ... one can only hope his pessimism about the population will not be realized. BPB, Louisville http://e360.yale.edu/feature/tracking_the_causes_of_sharp__decline_of_the_mon arch_butterfly/2634/[1] --- Links --- 1 http://e360.yale.edu/feature/tracking_the_causes_of_sharp__decline_of_the_monarch_butterfly/2634/ ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== When posting on BIRDKY, please close posts with your first and last name and your address (city or county). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post on BIRDKY, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS website at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/default.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS Photo Page to view photos of birds recently sighted in Kentucky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/kentucky_ornithological_society/pool * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison. E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx