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Local pollinator plots, monitoring part of monarch butterfly survey effort

Cacapon State Park summer naturalist Gerald Michaels is seen with a milkweed plant that has a monarch instar caterpillar on it.

Cacapon State Park has an official pollinator zone where monarch butterfly research is conducted.

by Kate Evans

Some 75% of flowering plants and almost 75% of food crops depend on pollinators. The monarch butterfly and other butterflies, bees and pollinators are in danger from urban development, loss of   farmland and habitat, climate change and…

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