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Save the Monarch
by Maribel Silva

(1) Over the past 25 years, the monarch butterfly population has drastically declined by 90%.
(2) We need to become citizen scientists here at Wilson High School and do what we can to support and sustain the monarch population.

A. Like all pollinators, monarchs help pollinate plants while they sip the nectar from wildflowers.
B. Monarch butterflies are orange and black, and they migrate southward to Mexico for the winter.
C. Monarch butterflies typically live just a few weeks after their metamorphosis from being a caterpillar.
D. According to conservationist groups, monarch population numbers are still on a downward trend.