Big Oil, Chemical & Farm Machinery companies providesuperb Monarch Butterfly Breeding Habitat

Sunsol SUNSOL at prodigy.net
Mon Aug 12 15:11:15 EDT 2002


>
> Just where do these monarchs breed?  According to Iowa State
> entomologists It turns out most of them breed on milkweed plants
> growing WITHIN the canopy of crop monocultures such as corn and
> soybeans  I got to see this first hand during a visit to the area of
> Morris, Minnesota on July 28 - Aug. 1
>
> http://www.saber.net/~monarch/soybeanrr.jpg

The above website references "Roundup Ready Soybeans." What does that phrase
mean? I know that the crop must be soy beans, and Roundup is an herbicide
IIRC. But "Roundup Ready?" Sally



 
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