<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Washington Post article today.  I will post link and I am adding a copy of the article also.  </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small">Rapid development, rising tems and and boom in pesticides are the drivers, with focus on the latter. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:small"><a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/06/butterfly-decline-research-population-crisis/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert">https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/03/06/butterfly-decline-research-population-crisis/?utm_source=alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=wp_news_alert_revere&location=alert</a></div><br clear="all"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><b style="color:rgb(106,168,79);font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif">Ann</b></div></div></div></div></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><div>Ann Pultz Kramer</div><div>Stanwood, WA</div><div><br></div><div><font color="#6aa84f">"<font size="1"><b>Use what talents you possess; the wood would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best</b></font></font><font size="1"><b>."</b></font></div><div><font color="#6aa84f" size="1"><b>Henry Van Dyke</b></font></div><div><p><br></p></div></div></div></div></div>