Environment & Energy

They used to be plentiful in the fields. When my boys were small we'd raise then for the eggs laid on milkweed leaves until they'd gone through the stages of metamorphosis to spread their wings and be released.

The experience allowed me the chance to give them lectures about sugar based cardiotoxins to which the Monarch's are immune, but they couldn't have cared less. What they did care about was that they'd raised caterpillars who eventually became butterflies who would fly away.

It is sad that magic will be rare for future children.