7 Reasons Why You Should Attract More Butterflies to Your Garden

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By Brock Schilling

Believe it or not, monarch butterflies are in serious danger of going extinct. So much so, that they are a candidate for becoming listed as an endangered species by the Endangered Species Act.

According to scientist the monarch population is only 10 percent of what it was 25 years ago. The number one culprit for the demise of monarchs? Genetically Modified Foods. GMO crops are designed to be resistant to herbicides like Monsanto’s Roundup which kill off the monarch’s sole food source: milkweed. It’s estimated that GMO crops are responsible for destroying almost 80% of the natural milkweed in …read more

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