Butterflies and Children

We are finally realizing that the human condition is linked to the fate of other species. Nowhere is this more clearly illustrated than in the case of children and butterflies. What butterflies have in common with children is their vulnerability to toxins. In recent years butterflies have seen their numbers drastically reduced, because of the widespread use of common herbicides, pesticides and fungicides.

Photo Monarch Butterfly
© Alan J. Hanks ... Used With Permission

A major source of toxins affecting children and butterflies are the pesticides often used on golf courses, agricultural lands and public spaces. These chemicals include.

Pesticide Profiles

Dursban ..(Chloropyrifos) Organiophoshate .. nerve gas.

Malathion .. Toxic Pesticide, causes birth defects.

Methyl bromide .. Toxic Pesticide, depletes the ozone layer.

Dichlorvos .. Toxic Organophosphate used in households.

Popoxur .. Toxic Insecticide, disrupts nervous system.

Source : Pesticide Information Profiles

To improve the situation for both our children and butterfly our dependance on toxic chemicals must come to an end.

The Cabbage White Butterfly used my mothers cabbage patch as a nursery, and was without question, considered a pest. The Monarch Butterfly which is not a pest suffers a different fate. Its young, lives off the Milk Weed Plant which is considered a pest.

Photo © Alan J. Hanks Used With Permission

To protect our human interests, we control these weeds and pests with toxic chemicals. It is only now, we are realizing just how deadly our control is. Recently a decree has been put out to spray and destroy all milkweed plants on your lands; the very food source for the Monarchs.

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