2012 Update: Monarch Are Still Abundant on GMO Farmland

[Paul Cherubini]

The largest roost sighting posted to Journey North as of Aug. 26 - by far - was located in roadside trees in south-central Minnesota that are surrounded by vast fields of genetically modified corn and soybeans: http://www.learner.org/jnorth/sightings ... 1346183174

And here's another video I shot of many monarchs and other butterflies nectaring next to huge monocultures of GMO corn and soybeans in the same general region (Aug. 26, 2012 4 miles north of Fairfax, MN along State Highway 4):
http://www.learner.org/jnorth/sightings ... 1346249793

Specifically, DupontPioneer Optimum AcreMax Xtra Corn with the BT traits against the corn borer moth and corn rootwoom beetle and corn that also has the Roundup Ready trait and corn that is grown from clothiandin insecticide treated seed (clothiandin is a neonicitinoid insecticide)

[blazing star]

2012 Update on reply to your thread:

GMO crops serve no useful purpose to the monarch butterfly.

1. They are not food for the butterfly.

2. They are not suitable habitat for the butterfly. Contrarily, they serve to deplete monarch habitat.

3. GMO corps an have ill effects on the remaining habitat of the monarch butterfly as these crops escape into the wild and cannot be killed by herbicides.

4. GMO crops are ill effecting remaining surrounding habitat as non judicious spraying of herbicide serve to kill off any nearby remaining milkweed.

[Paul Cherubini]

4. GMO crops are ill effecting remaining surrounding habitat as non judicious spraying of herbicide serve to kill off any nearby remaining milkweed.

There is still a great deal of milkweed and nectar plants along the roadsides that border the GMO crops - so much so that monarchs, bumblebees and
honeybees are still abundant along these roadsides. Here is a long 16 minute video I shot last August that shows this abundance along three
roadsides in south central Minnesota that border the most intensive monocultures I could find: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZCOJnJU1UE