MISSING! Where in Hades are all the butterflies this year??!!!

Same here in Florida..HMMMMMMM

Its really starting to freak me out.

Surprisingly also spiders here in FL.

Bees, Bugs, Butterfly's = Poof = Monsanto...

haven't seen any lately in virginia either.

I have planted a entire garden full of perennials to attract butterflies and the only thing I am getting is slugs. If this continues long term I have a very bleak view of the future and it has nothing to do with doom dates...it has to do with science and the dying of all plants.

And of the lower food chain which will inevitability follow UP..

i have a ginormous butterfly bush in the back yard. it's been blooming about two weeks now and nada. nothing.

To answer the OPs question - Where in HADES are all the butterflies this year?

Nowhere in Hades, you're looking in the wrong place buddy. Try heaven. :)

oh actually i just lied. i just checked it and i had one...just one swallowtail. first ive noticed this year.

You can thank Monsanto, Bayer and others for the lack of butterflies and bees.

Those who control the food, control the world, dontcha know.

Sadly that is accurate

I'm seeing plenty (normal amount) in Fauquier county. Bees are a very different story.

now that you mention it, not too many in Delmarva peninsula.

lots of moths, though. very pesky moths.

I live in the Florida panhandle. We used to raise thousands of swallowtail butterflies. Our yard is full of attractor plants for the butterflies and the host plants for the caterpillars. We have had just 1....just a single one this year. Last year more than half the butterflies who "hatched" were deformed and they could not fly ...the deformity was one wing was crumpled up and like a stub. We thought it was correxit (the stuff in the water for the oil spill). The loss of these beautiful creatures is heartbreaking.

haven't seen a butterfly yet this year. Surprisingly, I have yet to see a June bug either. Usually the June bugs start becoming a nuisance right around mid-May.

I wonder if its the late spring we had this year or something more sinister.

Seeing plenty here, there has been an abundance of butterflies. Good picture opportunities!

I am really trying to figure out the rational behind these politicians that scream about global warming but think that killing native polinators will have no effect on life. Its like they believe a bug cannot provide any benefit to the big important humans and money is much more important.

You are very lucky

I have the small white ones called cabbage moths or something,. They look and act like butterflies. I kill every one I see. Got a net and everything.

They destroy the cabbage, broccoli, and cauliflower etc.

I have not seen any nice ones at all.

We have tons of bees. I have never seen so many. Idaho.

Yep, same here but I have 2 huge bushes in full bloom and only two or three spotted this year. Last year there were hundreds out. Somethings up.

Yeah, same here in Ireland. Used to be over-run with spiders, horseflies, bugs. In the summer there were loads of bees and lovely butterflies. Despite it being 29 degrees today I still haven't seen a single bee or butterfly. No bugs or ladybirds either. The food chain's disappearing!

The GMO s from Monsanto is killing off all the milkweed and that is a major food source of monarch butterflies.

Same place as the bees.

All dead. We should remove all books and references to the butterfly and the monarch from all literature now.

The Monarch is dead...time to purge history of the beast.

I live outside Dayton and saw a small monarch butterfly a couple days ago. I have seen a couple of the small yellow ones also.

i've seen one this year. chillax

Monarchs are only running through Tinian on Private Cable now.

Didn't you read the memo?

This reminds me of the time my friend was talking about the disappearing bee's and commented that he never see's butterflies anymore. I told him I see them all the time and he didn't believe me and I was able to point out several butterflies to him in under a minute tops. I literally see them every single day and plenty of bee's too and other things like dragonflies, ladybugs and even rainbows more often than other people. I don't know why and it's strange because I know about the disappearing bees yet I see them all the time while other people don't.

Good point-- Last Spring I had dozens in the cherry tree blossoms, this year I have barely seen a couple butterflies. We did have an usually long cold Spring... hmmm

oh whoopee ONE