[Pollinator] Study ties GMO corn, soybeans to butterfly losses

[Eric Mader]

>From today's Minneapolis Star Tribune:

"The rapid spread of herbicide-resistant crops has coincided with -- and may
explain -- the dramatic decline in monarch numbers that has troubled some
naturalists over the past decade, according to a new study by researchers at
the University of Minnesota and Iowa State University…."

The full story (featuring Drs Karen Oberhauser, John Pleasants, Chip Taylor,
and others) is available here:

http://www.startribune.com/local/143017765.html?page=all&prepage=2&c=y#conti
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Eric Mӓder
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