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Monarch Butterfly Flutters on the Edge of Extinction

Roddy Scheer butterfly, endangered, extinct, extinction, list, Milkweed, Monarch, nectar, pollen, pollination, species, wildlife

Environmentalists won a lawsuit forcing the federal government to decide by 2019 whether or not to list the once abundant Monarch butterfly as endangered.

bees

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What’s Killing All the Bees?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer agriculture, bee, bees, farm, farmer, farmers, farming, honey, honeybee, insecticides, Jeff Merkley, neonics, organic, pesticides, pollen, pollinate, pollination, pollinator

Activists would like the U.S. government to ban a class of insecticides called neonics that they blame for wiping out the bees that pollinate a majority of our food crops.

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