Help Monarchs in Your Neighborhood

		Help Care for Monarch Butterflies in Your Neighborhood  Monarchs travel north to places like Washington, DC and Maryland for up to 2 months, traveling 50-100 miles per day. Adopt a monarch garden in your neighborhood, and help keep monarch homes safe. Dear Omss, As the weather warms each year, marvelous monarch butterflies make their way north, to their homes all around Washington, DC and Maryland. Across the District of Columbia and Maryland, gardens have been planted on school grounds that attract these iconic butterflies. But as summer continues and the gardens grow, volunteers like you will play a vital part in ensuring their success. Adopt a monarch garden in your neighborhood today. These tiny colorful creatures travel up to 100 miles a day for up to two months to return to our region. While they are here, they rely our gardens to feed and produce the next generation of monarchs.  And then, when the weather begins to cool, the monarchs will head back down south, where the weather remains warm. Unfortunately, the threat of climate change is very real to monarchs, and erratic climate patterns are impacting the homes they rely on and their only food source, milkweed. Will you help make sure that safe havens for monarchs continue to grow across the mid-Atlantic region? It’s a pretty simple task. These gardens are located across the city, and we need a few volunteers for each site to take the reins on their care. All you’ll need to do is water the garden (some newer gardens require daily watering, while others are just weekly) and tend to any weeds or unwanted plants that sprout in the area until October. Caring for a monarch garden in your neighborhood can be a great family activity, and can have a life-saving impact on these iconic beauties. See the list of gardens and volunteer today. Once you volunteer, we will be in touch and give you all of the details that you’ll need! Sincerely, Brian Bovard Wildlife Volunteer Corps Coordinator Defenders of Wildlife
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