A reminder that it's all too easy for the media and its audience to become focused on certain undeniable truths, so narrowly focused that the larger truth is completely obscured. Such is the case with monarch butterflies. We know they're endangered, put at risk because farmers use herbicides and eliminate the field boundaries where milkweeds used to grow. We know they're beautiful, and anything beautiful and endangered must be rescued.
But this column by an entomologist in today's Post reveals that monarchs are in Hawaii, Tahiti, Australia and New Zealand. It's the monarchs migrating to and from Mexico which are stressed, but apparently millions winter in California.
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