GMOs and Pollinators: Protecting Biodiversity

By Community Manager - Jun 10, 2020

Learn about GMOs and pollinators, such as bees, butterflies, and other beneficial bugs and insects. In this post, we discuss the important balancing act of maintaining the species and their habitats while feeding our growing, global population.

GMOs not main culprit in monarch butterfly decline

By Community Manager - Mar 05, 2019

Using digitized records from museums and herbaria throughout North America, the researchers were able to track the relative abundance of both monarchs and milkweeds for more than a century, from 1900 to 2016. They found that both monarchs and milkweeds increased during the early 20th century and recent declines are actually part of a much longer trend beginning around 1950. "Herbicide resistant crops are clearly not the only culprit, and likely not even the primary culprit," the paper states. "Not only did monarch and milkweed declines begin decades before GM crops were introduced, but othe [...]