Since people are reading this, let me rant a bit:

One of the things you can do, as an individual, to help your local environment, is grow flowers. Even if you live in an apartment, just a flower pot on a windowsill helps - even tiny urban gardens have an outside impact on pollinators.

If you have a yard, you can replace invasive grasses with native species and nectar-rich flowers. Don’t use herbicides or pesticides. Leave leaf litter alone over the winter to provide habitat for insects. Set aside a section to “go wild”. Just like with flower pots, leaving even a small section of lawn without chemicals and frequent mowing can have an outsized impact on pollinators and native insects.

Lawns and gardens are a space where individual effort and individual care for the environment really does matter. You might not be able to reverse climate change, but you can make a migratory monarch butterfly’s day just a little better.