Jeremy Clarkson: Just been for a walk round the farm and I’m a bit alarmed by how few butterflies there are.

Something is afoot.

Danny Wallace: Diesel-smelling Top Gear host who threatened climate protestors misses butterflies.

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I used to see so many monarch butterflies when I was a kid in Indiana. So many fireflies too. I don’t think I’ve seen a single monarch since I moved back about a decade ago and hardly any fireflies.

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Don’t rake your leaves up in the fall and don’t mow in the spring until you are afraid of being fined. Plant a native garden. I have 3 species of fireflies in my little yard, and there are a lot of them.

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We actually do all of that already. We even had a local person from the DNR come in and help us with choosing native plants and getting rid of invasive ones. Very few fireflies. There used to be so many when I was a kid, you could just walk around catching them in your hands in the evening.

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you would not believe your eyes

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Plant some milkweed in your garden and they’ll come. It’s literally a weed, so minimal care is required.

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Yeah, monoculture is probably the culprit, not climate change.

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