Cut Herbicides and Pesticides to Help Monarch Butterflies

Cut Herbicides and Pesticides to Help Monarch Butterflies
More thoughts on how monarch butterflies could use a helping hand Fuse/Thinkstock
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Dear Editor,

A milkweed planting program probably would help the monarch butterflies, of probably much greater benefit to this threatened inset species would be a ban, or at the least, a dramatic reduction in the use of that which poses the greatest threat to the monarchs: Agricultural herbicides and pesticides associated with, in the main, genetically modified crops.