Stories Related to Midwest States Planting 1.3 Billion Milkweed Plants For Monarchs, Which Are On The Move

MICHELLE BRUNETTI POST Staff Writer, The Press of Atlantic City
Fri, 03/16/2018 - 12:40pm

Midwestern farm belt states announced this week they will plant more than one billion milkweed plants for monarch butterflies.

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