The Glyphosate herbicide destroys weeds, as the Center for Food Safety recently concluded, including the common milkweed. And that’s a problem for monarch butterfly caterpillars, which only eat the plant.
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February 19, 2015
Monarch butterfly endangered, is Monsanto to blame?
The Glyphosate herbicide destroys weeds, as the Center for Food Safety recently concluded, including the common milkweed. And that’s a problem for monarch butterfly caterpillars, which only eat the plant.
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One of the major Monarch resting places on their annual migration is / was a large area of what is now overgrown Toronto. The fields that once were, for a few days, gloriously alive with millions of these creatures were "developed" by a "higher species" a few decades ago. By people who wanted fancy shopping and high rises with a view of Lake Ontario.....
The butterflies got confused without their age old resting grounds? They stopped blessing Toronto with their annual presence a few decades ago.
I dare say that, along with Monsanto and glyphosate, etc, it is only COMMON SENSE that all of our unnatural actions upon this planet are resulting in their demise.
I use to see them in my backyard all the time until a couple of years ago.
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