Are monarchs extinct? #MonarchButterfly #Extinction #Rarelnsects #RareButterflies #Rare #milkweed

¡Hey everyone! It's Bailey with TN Nursery and today we're in my garden looking at my milkweed that I planted not last year but the year before. Now if you see this milkweed right here, this is about 4 foot tall. This is the milkweed we sell. This is milkweed directly from our garden beds. I've had this planted here for about 2 years and it is 4 foot tall and it bloomed the first year. Milkweed is the simplest way to save the monarch butterflies. The monarch butterflies is expected to be extinct within 15 years from now, and this is the only plant they'll raise their babies on. And with all of the urban development, uh, milkweed is getting harder and harder for the butterflies to find, and because of that, they are slowly going extinct. We have not seen many here this year. We've seen a fairly good bit last year, but I think we've only seen about 2 here at the nursery this year. But this plant you see right here is the quickest and easiest way to save the pollinators and especially save the monarchs. It's low maintenance. I've never had to spray it with any chemicals. It just does its own thing. It grows. I've never fertilized it. I just put it here and forgot about it, and it's done very good. We have these beautiful beneficial plants for buy one, get one free. Right now. I don't know how long that'll last, but they're absolutely beautiful and they attract hummingbirds and monarchs and little bitty rare pollinators like this little one I'm trying to catch in this video. You can't go wrong with planting it. It is so, so important to plant this plant. I can't tell you enough. Shop now at tnursery.net.