Global warming can turn monarch butterflies' favorite food into poison

Science Daily ^ | April 4, 2018 | by Louisiana State University

[Hot Tabasco]

My friend has a small backyard and his wife has planted a small plot of milkweeds for the monarch butterflies. Every year the butterflies manage to find them and lay their eggs which she then brings in the leaves and puts them in an insect cage I built for her. The eggs hatch and the caterpillers eventually grow and climb to the top of the cage and create their chrysalis then hatch into the butterflies.

Depending on how many eggs she finds, she'll usually give me a few and I'll put them in my cage......

She also puts out a pot of parsley plants which the tiger swallowtails seem to find and lay their eggs on.........cool stuff.

[Yaelle]

You guys need to have more sex. We need unicorns. No matter what, unicorns give us all the hope for the impossible. Dreams. Flying white horned beasts pooping down skittles from the skies.

[b4its2late]

Yep! Hahaha. You can’t make this stuff up though they try to.

[blueunicorn6]

M&Ms.

Unicorns poop M&Ms.

Leprechauns poop Skittles.

And unicorns don’t kiss and tell....or horn and tell.....whatever.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Actually the problem is they are importing non-native plants and letting them run wild.

Come to think of it they are doing the same with people.

[faucetman]

“... potentially turning its favorite plant food into a poison.”

I guess it won’t be their favorite food for long.

What good does this study do? Are they going to WARN all the butterflies?

How has the earth and all of its life survived all this time WITHOUT “scientists”?

Oh, right... God.

[faucetman]

Well, the butterflies will just have to work it out..... or not, dodos.

[Yaelle]

I am sorry I triggered you.

And after I hit post, I realized I had made a grave error re your skin color as well. I had made the assumption you were white. Then I paid more attention to your screen name and I did feel really bad to have injected race into this discussion. I love m&ms. I was even listening to Eminem on Monday night. And blue is my favorite color. I’m truly sorry.

[blueunicorn6]

“I triggered you”

Leave Roy Rogers horse out of this.

[daler]

Don’t forget the devastating effect global warming had on unicorn populations worldwide.

[blueunicorn6]

What?

It did?

I blame The Beatles.

[Yaelle]

Sorry. I didn’t know you two had a thing. ;)

[<1/1,000,000th%]

And it can turn earthworms into whales.