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Topic: monarch butterflies

Monarch Butterflies (Getty Images/ HegedusPeter/500px)

Monarch butterfly populations crashing

Matthew Rozsa
Monarch Butterfly (Getty Images/Claude LeTien)

How ESA could harm monarch butterflies

Lila Westreich - Massive Science
(Protosav AN/Shutterstock)

The plan to save the bees

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='url to photographer'>Michael Warwick</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Millions of monarchs vanished

Joanna Rothkopf
Wet season butterfly. (Credit: William Piel, Oregon State University)

Ben Guarino - The Dodo
(Chris Frost/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=1466555'>CathyKeifer</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Monsanto vs. the monarchs

Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-74510p1.html'>Rich Koele</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

Rod Bastanmehr - Alternet