After London workers cut down a monarch butterfly habitat without the homeowner's permission, an environmental lawyer says Ontario cities must re-examine policies addressing complaints over butterfly-friendly wild flowers. McKee got three tickets totalling $300 in cleanup, inspection and administration fees because city workers had to deal with "tall weeds and grass" on her property. The monarch butterfly is subject to a federal management plan that has existed since 2016. "The city actively includes pollinator habitat and monarch habitat in buffer restoration and other naturalization projects. In his field work, he visited 99 milkweed plants and found only one larva.

Source: CBC News August 02, 2022 14:27 UTC