The Iowa Renewable Fuels Association has launched the Monarch Fueling Station Project to help ethanol and biodiesel producers establish monarch butterfly habitats on green spaces surrounding biofuels plants. Iowa State University Entomology Professor Dr. Steve Bradbury says as part of the project IRFA has joined the Iowa Monarch Conservation Consortium.
Bradbury, who’s one of the leaders of the Consortium, says the small habitat established on land surrounding the biofuel plants will support the monarch butterfly population.
He says the habitat patches also benefit wildlife like honey bees, pheasants and birds.
The first ethanol plant to launch the Monarch Fueling Station is at Lincolnway Energy in Nevada, Iowa.
