Drought Hits Butterfly Population

Weather.com - AP, 9/17/12

HENDERSON, Ky. — A naturalist at Audubon State Park in western Kentucky is noticing another effect of the high heat and drought that has plagued the region — a dearth of monarch butterflies.

Julie McDonald told The Gleaner that the butterflies are usually migrating through the area to Mexico by now. "Normally by now I would have been seeing monarch butterflies," she said. "But I haven't seen any yet, unfortunately. The heat has hit anything that feeds on nectar."

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