They came for the Monarchs and I said nothing...
WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!!!
I remember when it was the frogs that were mysteriously disappearing, by the way.
Sure it is not the massive use of pesticides,herbicides, etc by Big Agribiz?
Bush’s fault.
This can be solved by paying a mere $100 billion to farmers to plant milkweed fields. Maybe if you could make overpriced ethanol from milkweed you could double up on the federal gravy train. (I wish I was joking, but someone will seriously propose it.)
I thought the unusually cold winter(caused by Global Warming) in Northern Mexico was the main cause.
There are a few areas in N. Mexico that are the winter grounds for millions of monarchs.
One way or another it’s man’s fault. Esp. republicans.
What is the Monarch base line prior to corn farming?
Absent that number, the article is pure propaganda
MY neighbors hate me.
They hate that because the lawn is not manicured looking.
I intentionally sow milkweed on my property.
I love the smell of milkweed flowers and watching the Monarch butterflies dance from flower to flower.
Now I have an excellent reason to grow this weed.
Why do we need so many Monarch butterflies anyway???
This is kind of a crap headline, the “problem” is not so much the GMO, but the fact that they can use indisciminate herbicides like glyphosate, and they do so, thus reducing the milkweed population.
What an idiot this writer is. Opposed as I am to GMOs, the loss of the milkweeds is not brought about by GMOs unless someone is planting GMO versions of milkweed plants.
I skimmed the source article and gathered that the biologist whose study inspired this clown’s article concluded that there was a loss of milkweed plants because the farmers are using herbicides to kill weeds. Pretty sure farmers were using herbicides before the introduction of GMOs.
I guess “GMO” is one of those terms that they just like to wave out there to get lefty loon attention.
had nothing to do with the massive die off a few years ago due to cold temperatures in mexico?
Typical liberal BS “science.” Take any malady, take something liberals hate, then blame it for the malady. No science research or evidence required.