Monarch butterfly decline linked to spread of GM crops
by Emily Chung

CBC News    Translate This Article
4 June 2014

On 4 June 2014 CBC News reported: The main cause of the monarch butterfly's decline is the loss of milkweed -- its food -- in its US breeding grounds, a new study has found. That all but confirms that the spread of genetically modified crops is indirectly killing the monarch. This past winter, the number of monarch butterflies wintering in Mexico fell to its lowest since 1993, when records first started being kept, the World Wildlife Fund and Mexico's Environment Department reported in January. That report blamed the loss of milkweed owing to genetically modified crops and urban sprawl in the US and illegal logging in the butterflies' Mexican wintering ground. Now, an analysis combining all the known data about monarch populations and the factors that influence them shows that the monarch's biggest threat is in the US, not Mexico. The leaves of the milkweed plant are the only place that monarchs lay their eggs and the only food that monarch butterfly caterpillars will eat. A large proportion of monarchs east of the Rocky Mountains breed in the US corn belt, stretching from Kansas in the west to Ohio in the east, and south to north from Missouri to North Dakota. US farmers have been increasingly planting corn and soybeans resistant to herbicides, and then applying those herbicides liberally on their fields. That kills off plants between the rows of crops that aren't resistant, such as milkweed. Global Good News service views this news as the failure of modern environment systems. Such 'flops' highlight the need for more intelligent, evolutionary, Natural Law based, life-supporting systems.

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