{"id":4208,"date":"2021-07-15T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-07-15T15:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/?p=4208"},"modified":"2021-10-06T15:13:45","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T15:13:45","slug":"monarchs-don-t-much-care-for-heavy-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/monarchs-don-t-much-care-for-heavy-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"Monarchs don\u2019t much care for heavy metal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-3467\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_4792_APDP_C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"760\" height=\"570\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Heavy metals are found naturally in the Earth\u2019s crust. However, human activity stirs up an important amount of these metals into the environment. Most organisms are now exposed to much higher concentrations than those encountered in their evolutionary history. But how does it affect the monarch? Does it risk being exposed to these heavy metals, and above all, is it sensitive to those pollutants?<\/p>\n<p>by Alessandro Dieni,\u00a0<em>Mission Monarch<\/em>\u00a0coordinator<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>To read this article, please visit the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/m.espacepourlavie.ca\/blogue\/en\/monarchs-don-t-much-care-heavy-metal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Space for Life website.<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>More articles:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/how-to-create-a-monarch-habitat\/\">How to create a monarch habitat<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/monarchs-know-how-to-take-care-of-themselves\/\">Monarchs know how to take care of themselves<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mission-monarch.org\/time-to-get-at-your-milkweed-seeds\/\">Time to get at your milkweed seeds!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Heavy metals are found naturally in the Earth\u2019s crust. However, human activity stirs up an important amount of these metals into the environment. Most organisms are now exposed to much higher concentrations than those encountered in their evolutionary history. But how does it affect the monarch? Does it risk being exposed to these heavy&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/monarchs-don-t-much-care-for-heavy-metal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monarchs don\u2019t much care for heavy metal!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":4209,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4208"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4241,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4208\/revisions\/4241"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mission-monarch.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}