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But in Southeast Michigan where crop monocultures now reign one can now find very little Common Milkweeds in the fields anymore. As recently as ten to fifteen years ago this was not true of crop fields in Washtenaw County Michigan. There were lots of Milkweeds
to be found there. Of course this present lack of Milkweeds can only be detrimental to breeding Monarch populations in our area. Take away masses on Common Milkweeds in the fields and open area, and Monarchs are bound to suffer immensely. Who says we could
not lose the migrating Monarchs as a subspecies? I have to question the wisdom and good faith of Deniers of Biodiversity loss.</div>
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Roger Kuhlman</div>
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Ann Arbor, Michigan</div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" color="#000000"><b>From:</b> Leps-l <leps-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> on behalf of Paul Cherubini <monarch@saber.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 24, 2022 5:02 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> leps-l@mailman.yale.edu <leps-l@mailman.yale.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Leps-l] Finally Announced: The size of the Mexican monarch overwintering colonies this past winter.</font>
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An ironic reality is the GMO crop monocultures of the upper Midwest</div>
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are where some of the most spectacular examples of monarch </div>
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abundance can STILL be filmed.</div>
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Example: the GMO corn and soybean monocultures of south-central</div>
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Minnesota last summer on Sept 1:</div>
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<a href="https://twitter.com/DustinDemmer/status/1433077655495184397" class="">https://twitter.com/DustinDemmer/status/1433077655495184397</a></div>
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And on Aug. 29 last summer monarchs were filmed migrating across a </div>
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south-central Minnesota farmland highway, against a southwesterly </div>
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headwind, at the rate of 20 per minute: <a href="https://youtu.be/Q1ugyulER6Q" class="">
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Paul Cherubini</div>
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El Dorado, Calif.</div>
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