Solana Beach SeaWeeders, council members open new pollinator garden
Solana Beach Mayor Lesa Heebner and council members cut the ribbon to commemorate the new pollinator garden.
(Luke Harold)
June 27, 2021 4:03 PM PT
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With orange and black monarch butterflies fluttering in the background, Solana Beach City Council members and the SeaWeeders Garden Club cut the ribbon to mark the opening of a new pollinator garden along the east wall of the La Colonia Community Center on June 24.
The new garden, which was planted in April, is part of the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge to support the dwindling monarch butterfly population.
“The idea here is to have a diverse array of milkweed for monarchs, which are endangered, and other nectar plants that attract not only butterflies but also bees, hummingbirds, other kinds of pollinators,” said Kathleen Drummond, president of the SeaWeeders.
Monarch butterfly populations to get a boost from Biddeford
The city has signed the Mayor s Monarch Pledge to create habitat for butterfly and educate residents about how they can make a difference.
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A triple crown of monarch butterflies look for nectar at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in 2018. Biddeford City Council has recently approved the “Mayor’s Monarch Pledge,” to support efforts to boost monarch populations in the face of declines.
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BIDDEFORD Many a pretty picture has been made of delicate, colorful monarch butterflies fluttering from flower to flower, drinking nectar and pollinating plants as they go.
Sugar Land Mayor Joe Zimmerman commemorated Earth Day last Thursday by signing the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) Mayors Monarch Pledge, joining a group of mayors around the U.S. who have
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CORTLAND – At a recent city council meeting, Mayor Deidre Petrosky announced May to be Monarch Butterfly Education Month in the city.
Petrosky said in March she received an email encouraging her to join the Mayors’ Monarch Pledge a program put on by the National Wildlife Foundation.
“I knew nothing about it so I did my research and found the population (of monarch butterflies) has dropped 90 percent since the 1990s. That really shocked me,” Petrosky said.
The Mayors’ Monarch Pledge program launched in 2015 to engage cities and communities in monarch and pollinator conservation, according to the foundation’s website. There are over 300 different communities nationwide that have signed the pledge. Of those communities, there are 11 in Ohio and Cortland is the lone community in Trumbull and Mahoning counties.
Why are there caterpillars in your lunchbox? my father asked my elementary school-aged self. What is your first memory of butterflies? When you think of butterflies, do you picture a monarch? How would you feel knowing there are 90% fewer monarchs now than there were in the 1990s? Unfortunately, this is true, and in December 2020 they became a candidate under the Endangered Species Act, meaning monarchs meet the definition of an endangered species, ( listing.is warranted ) but they are not currently being protected. Each monarch weighs as little as a paperclip. It takes four or five generations of these butterflies to fly up from mountain forests in Mexico every spring to as far north as Canada. By late summer, a single super generation emerges to travel the entire 2,500 miles back to Mexico for overwintering. They lay their eggs