147-Monarchs and Milkweed: A Precarious Struggle Between Life and Death
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Joe Lamp'l
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🗓️ 12 March 2020
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Suffice it to say monarchs have a precarious relationship with milkweed that is literally a matter of life and death. In this episode, we'll talk about monarchs, milkweed, and the remarkable story of their coevolution with Dr. Anurag Agrawal, author of Monarchs and Milkweed. It's an engrossing look at the intricacies of the monarch life cycle and the role a single genus of plant plays in their migration and survival.
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to the Joe Gardner Show, the podcast all about gardening, where we cover |
| 0:08.7 | everything you need to know to grow like a pro, no experience required. |
| 0:13.1 | And now here's your guide, National Gardening Television Host, and the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, |
| 0:18.5 | Joe Lampel. |
| 0:19.5 | Hi everybody, this is Joe Lampel, the Joe Behind Joe Gardner, and welcome to the Joe Gardner |
| 0:23.6 | Show. |
| 0:24.6 | Do you love monarch butterflies? |
| 0:26.4 | I sure do. |
| 0:27.7 | And some of my most vivid lifetime memories involve them. |
| 0:31.4 | From the time while hiking the Appalachian Trail that I came upon, thousands of them all |
| 0:35.6 | clustered around a small area of rocks on a stream bank, soaking up the sun and drinking |
| 0:40.8 | water. |
| 0:41.8 | To the time I watched a solitary monarch flutter from far away to land on a single milkweed |
| 0:47.3 | sprout that had just emerged from dormancy only a few days before. |
| 0:51.7 | So if you don't already know by now, I am fascinated by monarchs. |
| 0:55.6 | We've likely heard of the alarming numbers being reported lately related to their population |
| 1:00.4 | decline in recent years. |
| 1:02.1 | So I wanted to learn more and find out all I could to understand what's going on and |
| 1:06.9 | how to help. |
| 1:08.0 | So today I have just the person for that. |
| 1:10.4 | Dr. Anorag Agrawal is a professor at Cornell University in the Department of Ecology and |
| 1:15.6 | Evolutionary Biology and the Department of Entomology. |
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