Butterflies

“with spring getting closer and thoughts of weddings and graduations and things like that, i found a very very cool website that might interest you.


I think i may do this for my daughters sweet 16 birthday party

you can get Monarch Butterflies and release them. I am also getting the Butterflies kit. pretty cool.


butterflies”

“Yeah, and like the robin in England, they will be immediately eaten by predators.”

“thast nature, in all her glory”

“It is cool but it's not natural. The amount of painted ladies and monarchs being raised and released is huge. Way more than would ever occur naturally. Something to think about....”

“I thought she was going to be in Holland for her birthday?”

“her party before she leaves”

“no maple! don't do it : (”

“There were millions killed by a freeze in Mexico a couple of years ago, and they seem to have rebounded. At the time the scientists were worried.”

“no maple! don't do it : ("
ScorchFire
04:24:06 PM
03/10/04

dont do what? i think this is cool. we did it with ladybugs with the Cub Scouts. man I think we need more of them!”

“(AP) A detailed survey of birds and butterflies in Britain shows a population decline of 54 percent to 71 percent, a finding that suggests the world may be undergoing another major extinction.

Researchers said the study helps support the theory that the sixth big extinction in Earth's history is under way, and this one is caused by humans.

In a series of population surveys that combed virtually every square yard of England, Scotland and Wales over 40 years, more than 20,000 volunteers counted each bird, butterfly and native plant they could find. An analysis of the findings appears this week in the journal Science.

The results showed that populations of the surveyed species are in sharp decline throughout England, Wales and Scotland, with some species gone altogether.

A survey of 58 butterfly species found that some species had experienced a 71 percent population swoon since similar surveys were taken in 1970 through 1982. Some 201 bird species were tracked between 1968 and 1971, and then again from 1988 to 1991. An analysis showed that that avian population had declined by about 54 percent.

Two surveys of 1,254 native plant species showed a decrease of about 28 percent over the past 40 years.

"Population extinctions were recorded in all the main ecosystems of Britain," the authors report in Science. They suggested that the finding strengthens the hypothesis shared by many scientists that "the biological world is approaching the sixth major extinction event in its history."

Scott Miller, a biologist with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, said the British study was impressive and powerful because it was so thorough.

"The United Kingdom has a monitoring system (for birds, plants and wildlife) that is unmatched," Miller said. "They may not be representative of the world as a whole, but they have the best data."

He said the data supports the idea that the rise of humans over the tens of thousands of years along with climate changes are bringing on an extinction of many species and reshaping the natural world in ways that aren't thoroughly understood.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/03/18/tech/main607192.shtml

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“damn humans ae always screwin things up.

i love birds and butterflies, hope they can stop the dammage. overpopulation seems to me to be a horrible problem.”

“i read this, this morning

what else in new. humans have been doing this crap for hundreds of years. we wont be happy till the planet earth is a big sky scraper in a concret jungle”