Crop herbicides play a role in shrinking monarch population

Saturday, February 28, 2015 - 13:00 in Biology & Nature

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A butterfly being considered for federal protection is emblematic of the plight that pollinating insects face in part because farmers, enticed by ethanol mandates, are growing more herbicide-resistant crops, which has stripped millions of acres of crucial plant habitat....

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