And yet the same study that pointed to the loss of CRP land in Iowa which
has no affect on eastern USA populations makes reference to a single storm
in Mexico that wiped out an estimated 50% of the entire population!
AG
On Saturday, November 23, 2013, Tina Manley wrote:
> PESO:
>
> I couldn't find the thread where we were discussing the disappearance of
> the Monarch but this appeared this morning from tomorrow's NYT:
>
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/24/sunday-review/the-year-the-monarch-didnt-appear.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
>
> A big part of it is the way the United States farms. As the price of corn
> has soared in recent years, driven by federal subsidies for biofuels,
> farmers have expanded their fields. That has meant plowing every scrap of
> earth that can grow a corn plant, including millions of acres of land once
> reserved in a federal program for conservation purposes.
>
> Another major cause is farming with Roundup, a herbicide that kills
> virtually all plants except crops that are genetically modified to survive
> it.
>
> As a result, millions of acres of native plants, especially milkweed, an
> important source of nectar for many species, and vital for monarch
> butterfly larvae, have been wiped out.
> Onestudy<
> http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1752-4598.2011.00142.x/abstract
> >
> showed
> that Iowa has lost almost 60 percent of its milkweed, and
> another<http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261219410002152
> >
> found
> 90 percent was gone. “The agricultural landscape has been sterilized,” said
> Dr. Brower.
> I was right about Monsanto!
>
> Tina
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