National Wildflower Week: How to attract Monarch butterflies to your garden
Spring is here and the wildflowers are budding and blooming. Wildflowers are more than just beautiful and sweet smelling. Wildflowers support entire ecosystems, promote biodiversity and sustain life. Bees and butterflies work with the wildflowers to pollinate their habitat. Wildflowers play an important part in the balance of nature. May 7 - 13 is National Wildflower Week and when I think of wildflowers, I automatically think of the Monarch butterfly. Like many people in Ontario, the Monarch butterfly holds a very special spot in my heart, over all other butterflies. Sadly, I see less Monarch's now than I did when I was growing up. A decline in Monarch butterflies puts a lot of strain on our ecosystem. 90 per cent of the world's plants rely on pollinators like bees and butterflies for reproduction and fertilization, inducing common plants that feed our nation.
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