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Herbicides and Evolution; Roundup Pushing Butterflies to Extinction; Bumblebee Nervous Systems Impaired by Insecticide
Dangers of Monsanto’s Roundup and Dow’s Enlist Duo Herbicides. During the process of deploying more and more pesticides to deal with pests and weeds that are resistant, we are killing non-target organisms. These non-target organisms are often beneficial insects—bees in particular—that help keep pest populations in check and pollinate crops. It’s basic evolution. A pesticide can wipe out 99.9 percent of pests or weeds but that 0.1 percent that survives is resistant and they produce offspring that are even more resistant.
Monsanto Crops Pushing Monarch Butterfly to ‘Verge of Extinction’. ‘The alarming decline of monarchs is driven in large part’ by Roundup Ready crops, Center for Food Safety finds.
Bumblebee’s brain impaired by widely used insecticide. A widely used class of insecticides impairs the brain function of bumblebees, resulting in poor performance of their colonies.
