On Pesticides and Monarchs

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  Monarch Butterfli.

Nature is a key part of the growing, developing world we call a home. Through its seemingly magical, yet predictable patterns of chaos and discord, there is a way of how patterns of life and death follow, cycling and looping together to unite towards one unique and strong goal of persistence. Yet, it is likewise equally vulnerable and tends to break from the disturbances of beings beyond its expectation. Our developments in society have presented issues and challenges that negate the delicate balance that fuels nature, and overall often require our hand to help solve it. Agriculture has both devastated and developed society, and overall, the many steps that we have taken to improve the quality of our yields of the earth may have put danger into the very gears of nature that enable these yields.

Our use of pesticides, to remove the often common worry of crops spoiling from the inclusion of various minor, and often unsanitary insect and mammalian pests that vy for the nutrients of which we grow, may be causing the issues of more important animals from functioning properly, and therefore hurting the environment that we rely on to thrive. Ecodiversity, crop quality, and the overall circle of life that the ecosystems that we enrich by making our mark on the world all are affected by many of these creatures, the most notable being the Monarch Butterfly. This report is to go over an analysis of the effects of the five most notably reported pesticides from 1998 to 2022 and see if there is any correlation between the developments of Monarch Butterfly sightings during the same period in the continental United States region.

This report will go into the preparation process, the explanation, and the general scientific analysis with an appendix of the few technological resources that were used in this endeavor. While this project is small in scale, it is meant to be a starting part of a much larger, and hopefully more positive outlook to fixing the issues that may, or may not exist.

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