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CANYON LAKE’S NEWSPAPER  • AUGUST 3, 2018






















           Paddle & Pedal sets sail at                                                Woman's Club kicks                    Seniors enjoy luau
                                                                                      off 2018/2019                         themed potluck at

           Indian Beach next weekend Pg. A7                                           season Pg. A12                        senior center Pg. A15



















                                                                                                Ted Horton is devoted to helping reverse the decline of monarch butterfl ies in the
                                                                                                  area. He is pictured in the butterfl y-friendly habitat he created in his backyard.

































                                                                                                                                                                 PHOTO BY NANCY HORTON








                           Canyon Laker helps to reverse




                            decline of monarch butterflies






           BY PAT VAN DYKE                                   to thrive.                                        weather which makes Canyon Lake an ideal migration
           COLUMNIST, THE FRIDAY FLYER                         Thirty-five years ago, a young couple from the Neth-  location.
             Thirty-five  years  ago,  Canyon  Lake  was nestled  erlands visited Canyon Lake at the beginning of their   However, the entire  pollination  process has been
           in-between life-giving hills. Hills that were alive with  six-week-long travels in the United States. Both being  limited by the expansive development of open spaces,
           growth: flowers and plants that were part of the polli-  lepidopterists (individuals who study and collect but-  droughts, use of pesticides, and other items which are
           nation process that enabled the insects and other plants  terflies), their mission was to observe and identify but-  not pollinator friendly.
                                                             terflies native to the regional areas of the West Coast.  Canyon Lake no longer has the abundance of plants
                                                               Within an hour after their arrival, they caught a  and insects, especially  butterflies,  which were once
                                                             monarch butterfly which proved to be their most amaz-  prevalent in the area. In addition to Canyon Lake, other
                                                             ing find during their entire trip. They were impressed  cities and some rural areas have also noticed the same
                                                             with the abundance of butterflies and moths that they  decline. According to Marcus Gray, Biologist at Audu-
                                                             found in the Canyon Lake area.                    bon International: “In the last 20 years, monarch but-
                                                               At one time, monarch butterflies and other various  terflies have declined by 90 percent. Since the 1980’s,
                                                             butterflies and moths were found in abundance in Can-  butterflies generally, across all species, have declined
                                                             yon Lake, but since the 1990s there has been a notice-  by 40 percent.”
                                                            PHOTO BY PAT VAN DYKE  appear in the area.         situation very seriously. Ted became intrigued with the
                                                                                                                  Canyon  Lake  resident,  Ted  Horton,  is  taking  this
                                                             able decline. The past few years, these insects seldom
                                                               Long-time residents can remember having to clean  monarch butterflies since visiting the pine groves in
                                                                                                               Pacific Grove, California, when he and his wife Nancy
                                                             the windshield of their car after driving down Newport
                                                                                                               of the year, the trees were aglitter with fluttering but-
                                                             tion. Monarch butterflies  are not able to survive the
           At one time, monarch butterfl ies were found in abundance in   Road during the time of the monarch butterfly migra-  lived in Monterey during the 1990s. At certain times
           Canyon Lake. They have declined by 90 percent in the last   cold winters of most of the United States so they mi-  terflies, resting during their migratory travels along the
           20 years.                                         grate south and west each autumn to escape the cold                        CONTINUED PAGE A14
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