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The first two years of planting the milkweed - I had tons of Monarchs all over my yard. Since then - and each year after - their numbers were dwindling.

This summer the milkweed came up like always in the same areas and more stalks of it grew (a lot of milkweed).

However, I only saw one Monarch Butterfly in my yard this whole summer.

I live in a Chicago Western Suburb. We've had an unusually hot summer along with many air quality warnings due to the fires burning up in Canada. I don't know if that could have been the cause of the missing Monarchs.

I'd like to learn more as to what happened to the Monarchs as well.