Tammy SonsFounder/CEO, TN Nursery · CEO TN Nursery

🚨 Man-Made Flowers Are Killing Monarchs 🦋❌ #MonarchButterfly #SaveTheMonarchs #PollinatorCrisis

21 Aug 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief monologue, Bailey from TN Nursery alerts viewers that monarch butterflies could become extinct within the next 30 years if current gardening practices continue. The speaker explains that many people are planting ornamental, exotic, or genetically modified milkweed varieties, which do not serve as suitable host plants for monarchs. Monarchs only lay eggs on native milkweed species such as butterfly milkweed, common milkweed, swamp milkweed, and honey vine. Additionally, monarchs need native nectar sources like black‑eyed Susans, coneflowers, butterfly weed, and vervain. Bailey emphasizes that planting these native species supports both monarchs and other pollinators, urging viewers to replace pretty, non‑native plants with beneficial native ones to help save the monarch population and the broader ecosystem.

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Hey guys, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and I seen a little monarch today, and I wanted to tell y'all why they are expected to be extinct by 30 years from now. We are planting— all of us are planting pretty stuff in our yard. We like to plant, you know, pretty pansies and genetically modified milkweed, exotic types of milkweed. These monarchs only will lay their eggs on, let's say, butterfly milkweed, milkweed, swamp milkweed, just stuff that is native. There's a vine called honey vine, it's a type of milkweed. And we're planting pretty stuff when we need to be planting beneficial native stuff like black-eyed Susans, coneflowers, butterfly weed, milkweed, vervain. They're, they're going to die off if we don't make a change and start planting native things. Now you can see there's just butterflies surrounding these plants because they are a native butterfly bush. Help save the monarchs and save the world by planting native plants.