The main culprit for this precipitous decline is no longer logging in the reserve (although that still takes place) but the huge increase in land planted with genetically modified, herbicide resistant soybean and corn crops (93 percent of total soybean acreage and 85 percent of corn acreage in 2013) in the U.S. Corn Belt. Relentless spraying of glyphosate herbicides on the fields has destroyed the once abundant milkweed, the only plants that monarch caterpillars can eat. The monarch butterfly is literally being starved to death. huffingtonpost/homero-aridjis/mexico-monarch-survival_b_6501656.html?utm_hp_ref=world
Posted on: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 02:03:20 +0000
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