reporter: why the rebound? the mexican government has made progress fighting illegal logging, down 97%. but weather gets most of the credit. this winter, there was no major freeze in central mexico and a good spring last year in america produced a robust crop of milk weed, the solitary food source for monarch caterpillars. monarch experts who gathered in kansas say these butterflies help pollinate hundreds of plant species. probably more than a billion. reporter: but lincoln brower, who we first met in mexico, worries about modern farming techniques. part of the impact on monarchs now is industrialized agriculture which is destroying the milk weed food plant habitat, the breeding habitat of the butterfly. reporter: 140 million acres of milkweed have been lost in the last 16 years in the u.s., an area three times the size of illinois. another test of this tiny insect s resilience.
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as the rocky mount s to hibernate. authorities do not know how they know where to fly every year. experts say the caterpillar survive on milkweed plants in the area. jon: playboy is to get hopping. they are planning a shift in strategy. one idea could bring bunny s back to a nightclub near you. this is humiliating. stand still so we can get an accurate reading. okay.um.eighteen pounds and a smidge. a smidge? y know, there s really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool.
especially along a boundary which you can see on our current map. rain across here, and warm, moist air behind that. cooler, more dry air masses elsewhere. look at the temperature. 32 in rapid city, 30 in missoula. we will see below-average temperatures below the storm system, so it is something to talk about as we get into the fall weeks and then eventually winter. jon: jane does not need me here, so i m free to go. jane: let s get t-shirts made. at a somewhat related story, parts are of slaughter in santa cruz, calif., as thousands of monarch butterflies are writing are arriving, flying as far