Monarch Butterfly Fibre Blend

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When I was little, they were everywhere. Now they are listed as a vulnerable species. Milkweed, their main food, is being sprayed with herbicide in rural Ontario. This, plus habitat destruction by urban sprawl in Ontario, and in their overwintering grounds in southern California and in Mexico, is causing a decline in the Monarch Butterfly population.

Read about the Monarch Butterfly at Environment Canada's Species at Risk site

Wool, with accent threads of unknown fibre

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