Over the last couple of months, my wife, Sue—a long-time member of the North American Butterfly Association (NABA) and student of the beauty and ecology of butterflies—has conducted several butterfly counts in the region. She counts them because their numbers are vital to knowing what’s going on in our world, and she loves to teach […]
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The Monarch Miracle, Part Two
Since the recent story I wrote on the plight of the monarch butterfly in which I encouraged the residents of Central Oregon to create monarch waystations, I’ve been reminded by more than one person that I left out a couple of salient facts about the life history of monarchs: time and metamorphosis. Thus, regarding the […]
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Plight of the Monarchs
Monarch butterflies, once found throughout North America in the billions, are in the news because the species is faltering, and according to several insect specialists, is threatened with extinction. Adult monarchs do not hibernate; they MUST migrate to southern climes where they winter over in enormous numbers. Therefore, thousands of monarchs found in the eastern […]
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Better Living Through Music: Shabazz Palaces
Patrick O’Brien Smith/Sub Pop Whose snake is this? A few Source staffers were cold chillin’ downtown last weekend and were privy to a boatload of Digable Planets getting pipped in over the soundsystem. Good times, right? But it just made us curious about what Butterfly, one of the group’s MCs, was up to. In 2011, […]
