Monarch Decline : Royal Decline

“Chapter Nine: Dede” “‘Tell the butterflies to avoid the road to Puerta Plata. It's not safe.’ The butterflies, Lord God, how people romanticized other people's terror!” (Alvarez 199). " The irony of Dede’s distressed response to being called a “Butterfly” characterizes her nervousness and reluctance to being a national icon.

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

As a result of "human emissions of greenhouse gasses," numerous species of butterflies worldwide are facing the risk of extinction (World Wide Fund). Global warming is the gradual heating of the planet, which is triggered by human activities such as pollution from factories, results in climate change around the world (Rogers). Due to climate change, various species of butterflies need to adapt to these changes, but instead, they are dying out due to their sensitivity to fluctuating temperatures (Rogers). In the United Kingdom, scientists predict that “for every 1 °C increase in southwestern Europe’s temperature, some 14 different species of migratory butterflies and moths are forced to make the leap to England to cool off, which means making a long journey over open water” (Rogers). Climate change has required many species of butterflies to leave their migration paths and cross the treacherous oceans; this increases their risk of death

Sadly, the monarch butterflies are drastically decreasing due to the fact that the plant they need to survive, the milkweed plant, is slowly but surely diminishing.

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 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.

Today I am going to talk to you about the purple emperor or also known as a butterfly. The purple emperor originates from Mexico, but during the early spring they travel to the northern united states. When they have approached the untied state the female butterfly tries to find a milkweed plant to lay their eggs on. They eat honeydew, animal carcasses, and also the sap from an oak tree. obesely they are the color purple they can also be blue black green and yellow. they have long curled like tongues and brightly colored wings. Their conversation status is threatened

(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.

Life cycle TS: The life cycle of the monarch butterfly is divided into four stages: larvae, caterpillar, cocoon, butterfly-the larvae turns into the caterpillar which will develop a chrysalis state to turn it into an adult butterfly with a lifespan which can be about 2-6 weeks, but 4th generation monarchs will migrate and live around 6-8 months.

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

     The monarch butterfly, as known as Danaus plexippus, is often called the milkweed butterfly because its larvae eat the milkweed plant. They are also sometimes called "royalty butterflies" because their family name comes from the daughter of Danaus, ruler of Argos. There are many other interesting facts about this butterfly including its anatomy and life cycle, where the butterfly lies on the food chain, the migration from Canada to Mexico, why the butterfly is being threatened, and lastly, what is being done to help the butterfly.

Three different things are endangering the monarch butterfly. First, is the deforestation of Mexico. Through

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.

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