Monarch Decline : Royal Decline

The migrating of monarch is because of the harsh conditions on the northern US. They move south from areas of southern Canada and most of the US to a few sites in Mexico (Grzimek's, 2003). They migrate itself usually takes three to four generations of monarchs (Clattenburg, 2004). Scientists do not know why they migrate, but there are different theories. The first theory is the change of light in fall (Clattenburg, 2004). While others scientists claim the monarchs have a chemical in their bodies in which they are attracted to Mexico where the congregate in certain trees (Clattenburg, 2004). The latter does not explain why monarchs stay in Southern Florida as permanent residents (Emmel, 1999).

     The migrating of monarch is because of the harsh conditions on the northern US. They move south from areas of southern Canada and most of the US to a few sites in Mexico (Grzimek's, 2003). They migrate itself usually takes three to four generations of monarchs (Clattenburg, 2004). Scientists do not know why they migrate, but there are different theories. The first theory is the change of light in fall (Clattenburg, 2004). While others scientists claim the monarchs have a chemical in their bodies in which they are attracted to Mexico where the congregate in certain trees (Clattenburg, 2004). The latter does not explain why monarchs stay in Southern Florida as permanent residents (Emmel, 1999).

The monarch butterflies differ in migration than the any other species that migrate as well.The reason why the monarchs are different than other species is that they later come back to their previous winter location while other species stay.Monarch Butterflies migrate over 300,000 miles, for they can not stand the harsh cold temperatures. Every fall, they come from northern United States of America and migrate to southern United States of America, and at times they migrate all the way down to Mexico. Since monarch butterflies have” a complicated life cycle”(Migration) monarchs that have emerged in the winter do not yet reproduce until they’re in the summer or spring season.On the other hand, monarch butterflies that are emerged in the summer or springtime reproduce rapidly. In addition, it’s important for the monarchs to know when they have to migrate to the south and back to the winter.

Monarch butterflies transform via a crystallis state, which is similar to what the project experiments were trying to do with test subjects. Testing on human beings involved indoctrination and use of ritual abuse to create triggers in subjects, these could then be revived at a later time. The result being an unconscious reaction could be triggered days, weeks, or years later. The subject would then awaken from a sleeper state, and become transformed into various personality fractures. MONARCH subjects were intended for use in black ops and secret government activities. Tests revealed different people trained better for some types of black ops, these people were divided into types based on their skillset. The types were assassins, sexual predators, and remote viewing psychics. Some test subjects were found unsuitable for MONARCH programming, since they were unable to put them into sleeper states with any characteristic methods. Much of the work done in MONARCH programming was intended on being useful by the year 2012, at the turn of the Maya calendar ending, somehow related to the galactic alignments on planet Earth during that coming time

The monarch butterfly is a milkweed butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It’s like the king of all butterflies. They all carry a proboscis that gets nutrients from plants. Their scientific name is Danaus Plexippus. To them we are predators. Monarchs are found all over North America. New Zealand, Australia , and the Canary Islands( Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monarch_butterfly.)

The Hawaiian Honeycreeper is a small, passerine bird known to be native in Hawaii, arriving over 5.8 million years ago, their ancestors quickly colonized the area and created their new home, as volcanic islands around hawaii began to appear, the honeycreeper was able to adapt to new areas and began to become more diverse in their diets as their bodies began to evolve. At the time, there was more than 50 species of Hawaiian honeycreepers but as of now only 18 of them remain, 6 of the remaining species are endangered. Hawaii used to be an area with little to no mosquitos, though in the 1800’s when they arrived with lethal viruses such as malaria and pox, this was the first major wipe out for the Honeycreepers that have steadily declined as humans

The monarch butterfly is something that we all have known and loved ever since we were children. During the present time, the monarch butterflies are becoming extinct. Due to human and natural activities, the monarchs population has been declining for two decades. Delaware and its citizens are taking action to save the monarchs from extinction. The monarch takes on a long migration from America and Canada to Mexico during the winter (vice versa). The monarch lives in three distinct population areas. People in Delaware are working hard to save an American icon.

(http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/08/05/are-monarch-butterflies-really-being-massacred-a-new-study-says-its-a-lot-more-complicated-than-it-seems/) Monarch butterflies are one of the only two-way migratory species other than birds. Every spring, they embark on a 3,000 mile journey north from the mountains of Mexico and return in the fall. The migration can make it a little harder to accurately estimate population numbers; even so, the severity of the decline is no accounting slip-up.

Thousands of years ago, with the expansion of monarchies came the spread of numerous ideas specifically, religion. The culture and daily lives of those living within an empire was based on their faith. At its core, religion was a way to teach people how they should implement their lives, and it was a key part of unifying such large empires. The spread of a religion created countless impacts, with lasting effects on monarchies, that are demonstrated in modern society today. Some of these influences were negative, however they all caused impacts on all aspects of the areas they expanded in. The expansion of Buddhism in Japan and the spread of Christianity in the Americas, demonstrates how the spread of religion results in civic, governmental, and financial repercussions. Between 600 CE and 1700 CE, these monarchs were having impactful changes due to the expansion of a religion. Positive and negative social, political, and economic impacts were created as a result of the expansion of

Pleasants' and Oberhausen’s abstract is divided further into four parts, the first of which states, “The size of the Mexican overwintering population of monarch butterflies has decreased over the last decade,” (10). That same point continues to discuss the reasons for the monarch population decrease, including

Migration-Monarchs spend their winter hibernation in mexico and southern california where it is hot all year long because their fragile bodies can’t withstand the cold.Also, the larval food plants do not grow in their winter overwintering sites, so the spring generation must fly back north to places where the plants are plentiful.

Recent disasters and human pressures at the overwintering sites have made the Monarch susceptible to a catastrophic decline in numbers that could potentially push the North American population of the Monarch to the brink of extinction” (Lafontaine and Crolla). The quote mentions that the monarchs are a part of history. It also mentions

The life cycle of a monarch battleflies is divided in four stages. This stages are egg, caterpillar, pupa and adult. In stage one female monarch lay their egg in the bottom of the leaf near the top of the plan. Eggs hatch about four days after they are lay. Each egg is surrounded by a hard outer shell, called a chorion to protect the developing larva. In stage two the egg hatches into a Caterpillar. They start their life by eating their eggshells, then move into their host plant. During this stage the caterpillar eat a lot when it became too big for it skin, it molts oxin in the milkweed that they eat. After the caterpillar has eaten enough monarch larvae spin a silk mat from which they hang upside down. The entire larval stage in monarchs

Unlike modern monarchs and sovereign rulers, like the dynastic Queen of the United Kingdom, rulers in the ancient Near East rarely served as mere figureheads of governments, consulted solely for ceremonial roles and diplomacy. Though some kings in the ancient Near East inherited their positions, no kings could retain such power in a continuously unstable area without a strong military to protect their holdings and an effective method of ruling the peoples within them. Many kings in the ancient Near East obtained and thereafter maintained their positions of power based on several principal factors: military standing and ability, the scope of their external conquests, and their ability to control their citizens by use of military or monetary force. Some such examples of ancient Near Eastern monarchs include Gilgamesh, Hammurabi, Shalmaneser II, Sennacherib, and King Nebuchadnezzar, men whose rules spanned thousands of years but who all had the aforementioned factors in common.

This passage helps to characterize Ovid Byron as a scientist. For example, when he says “since God set them loose here, as you say,” he develops a scientific stance on the subject by pointing out that they believe God put these insects here and that he stands apart from their beliefs and believes that the butterflies were a cause of evolution. Ovid’s scientific status helps the reader throughout the rest of the novel to better understand the monarchs. Until this point Dellarobia didn’t know that the monarchs were in danger. The reader can infer from this passage, based on information gathered previously in the novel, that the monarchs had to adapt to living on the Turnbows farm because of the floods in Mexico. The butterflies help develop a central theme of adapting to survive, however as the reader progresses in the novel they learn that the monarchs are actually dying regardless of their attempt to adjust to the change. The butterflies reflect on Dellarobias character, causing the reader to notice the similarities between the butterflies and her.