[Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon

[Roger Kuhlman]

Paul, I just think it is nonsense to say that Modern high-technology agricultural practices in America have not negatively impacted Monarchs and other native butterfly species. I am not interested in seeing miles upon miles of solid rows of GMO Corn being producedfor the idiotic biofuel ethanol program that is both an expensive and wasteful solution for our energy problems. Roger KuhlmanAnn Arbor, Michigan
 > From: monarch at saber.net
> Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 21:46:06 -0800
> To: leps-l at mailman.yale.edu
> Subject: Re: [Leps-l] [leps-talk] Monarch Armageddon
> 
> On Feb 14, 2013, at 8:08 PM, Roger Kuhlman wrote:
> 
> > Remember the Passenger Pigeon.  Once there were
> > billions of them.
> 
> And remember in 1991 Dr's Lincoln Brower and Steven 
> Malcolm wrote this about the monarch in a peer 
> reviewed scientific journal*:  "its eastern North American 
> migratory phenomenon is now threatened with extinction 
> and will probably be destroyed within 10-20 years."
> http://saber.net/monarch/extinction2.jpg
> 
> Unlike passenger pigeons, monarchs are not stressed
> by a shortage of food, disease and are not being mass 
> hunted and shot.
> 
> And despite the widespread adoption of Roundup Ready 
> corn and soybean plants by Midwestern farmers and the 
> resulting reduction in the abundance of milkweed on farmland,
> there are still billions of milkweed plants growing along the
> edges of those same farm fields and will be for the forseeable 
> future. So to this day monarchs can still be routinely seen 
> laying eggs on those crop margin and farm roadside milkweed 
> plants like this:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MqrvAxTl0I
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKmDId55pfc
> 
> And to this day migratory monarchs continue to be 
> spectacularly abundant in the late summer in midwestern 
> farm towns that are surrounded by the Roundup Ready 
> crops.  Like this:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4e3S2sm13g
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJCnU7PB9to
> 
> So one wonders: Does professor Chip Taylor have a 
> legitimate scientific basis for telling the public and
> reporters that just because there is less, but still alot,
> of milkweed growing on midwestern farmland, the 
> monarch migration could be on the brink of collapse
> as he says or implies in these videos?:
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZXGRZMrsDU
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_Y9CKP1DuQ
> 
> Paul Cherubini
> El Dorado, Calif.
> 
> *Brower, L. and S. B. Malcolm. 1991. "Animal migrations: 
> Endangered phenomena." Amer. Zool. 31: 265-267.
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