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nativeplantlover said:

The Midwest is the "Corn Belt" of the US. It's also a major migration route for our Monarchs and Roundup kills off the Milkweed plants they need for survival.

In case anybody is reading and wondering: Roundup is used against weeds between corn rows--- It has been for many years, although most of us were unaware of this development. The corn is genetically bred to accept the spraying of that same Roundup along with the weeds!! Not good! So that's what "GMO" means in this particular instance-- (G.enetically M.odified O.rganism)

And if you buy gasoline you indirectly have helped in the downfall of Monarchs thanks to EPA and other government mandates on fuels requirements requiring corn based ethanol. There are plenty of studies that correlate the mandates with declining monarch numbers since millions of acres of land in CRP (where lotsa Milkweed grew) were converted to corn which was then planted in Round-Up ready corn seed. That assisted in killing yet more MW plants that might have grown in the new corn fields.