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Join Date: Nov 2008
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Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico
Sat Nov 21, 11:47 am ET Tree-eating bugs threaten Monarch butterfly in Mexico - Yahoo! News excerpt from above: Quote:
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Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: North Dakota
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What a distinctly NON-brilliant move, cutting down the trees to try to get rid of the bugs. typically non-brilliant, non-thinking.. flat out stupid. Raise stink on one hand about biodiversity & saving the planet & then further endanger the Monarchs with a move like that, when there are so many methods available to try first. And the people who did this are members of "the species that thinks"?? Naah!
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Beetles hit Monarch's trees in Mexico
By Mark Stevenson Associated Press Oct. 20, 2009, 1:51PM http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...s/6676675.html excerpt from above: Quote:
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Official Plant Nerd
Join Date: Dec 2008
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We don't know enough facts. There were some pheromone trials... don't know how those ended up. We should check around to see about that before pointing fingers but I will say on the surface this doesn't look good. Their people are poor and they were never compensated for the logging limitations placed on them... that means they're going to keep up the logging and there's no way to stop them. Harvesting continued... that's a fact even before the "authorities" stepped in. This is a 60 sq mile critically endangered forest system the monarchs depend on to conserve energy until spring... where will they go where they won't freeze... I have no idea but the beetle is a very real threat and action has to be taken or no more pretty monarchs to take photos of.
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