Dear sir or madam,

I would like to ask and share about monarch butterflies, about what they eat and their population, and on how they are important pollinators, and how they travel from Canada on Michoacan, Mexico. The only food they eat is narrow milkweed in our region.

It’s important to me because I want to talk about the culture. In my Mexican culture it is believed that a monarch means that your family from the dead is coming to visit you. The monarch population is decreasing and we can help them from going extinct.

I want to ask the Courier if they can put an article about how monarchs are going extinct. I hope people will grow habitats in the yard of their houses for monarchs to have a place to thrive on their journey. The zoo keeper called them “gas stations.”  I learned about this on a trip to the zoo in San Diego. The driver of a double-decker bus she explained how the monarchs are going extinct.

Me and my mom were able to grow 20 monarchs from an egg. And we released them into the wild (my backyard) to complete  their journey.

Sincerely,

Oliver Francis Dee

Rancho Cucamonga

P.S. I am 11 yrs old and I want to share this information with the community.

Save the monarchs!