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Permalink Reply by Katie Walden on -
This article was about patches of milk weed stopping the growth of corn and soy beans, but because of herbicides being sprayed on the crops by farmers, they are able to kill the milkweed. Although Milkweed is not good for the crops, it is good for the Monarch butterfly's who lay their eggs on this weed and their larvae eat it. This loss in milk weed is declining the population of these beloved insects, which eventually will lead to extinction. Other Sources are claiming they have not seen a decline in the population, because milkweed is not a major part of their survival.
This article relates to our class because they had a hypothesis at the beginning that becuase of the milkweed not exsisting as much, the butterfly population is declining. Which may not be true since one source says that the butterflys just have, "year-to-year fluctuations." They are having many different thoughts about oponoins coming from different sources.
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Permalink Reply by matthew tyler hendrix on -
the article is about one factor stopping the growth of two other factors (corn & soy beans)
certain herbisides, and chemicals can be used to destroy the milk weed.
although....this is good for farmers, its bad for the monarch butterfly, whom lay their eggs on the milk weed.
scientists fear this will, or has, declined the population of the already charce monarch butterfly.
this article, relates to our class bc it is representing different factors that affect one main factor. a hypothesis is used here to say- the decrease and destruction of the milk weed causes a decline in the monarch butterfly population.
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Permalink Reply by James Tajae Fontaine on -
the article is about the Monarch butterflies laying their larvae on the milkweed and after the larvae hatch, they eat the weed. the only problem with the milkweed is that it kills all the crops that it grow with like corn, and soy bean. one of the ways to kill the weeds is to spray chemicals on them and it also kills the larvae witch is killing the monarch butterfly population.
the article relates to the class cause after years and years of doing studies, they came up with a hypothesis and put the hypothesis to the test and got different outcomes then expected
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Permalink Reply by Bailey Williams on -
its talking about modifing the corn and soybeans cause there not growing
some people think its good news but scientest dont cause they fear its is imperling to marnark butterflys
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Permalink Reply by Mary Ellen Whittington on -
The article is about monarch populations in the midwest and how they are declining because of farmers planting genetically modified plants. The genetically modified plants are resistant to herbicides thus allows farmers to spray
the other weeds. The other weeds include the plant milkweed; milkweed is what monarch butterflies lay their eggs on.
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Permalink Reply by Brandon Smith on -
The article is about stopping the growth of corn and soybeans where it is now genetically grown. But the herbicide kills the milkweed, but endangers the monarch butterfly.
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Permalink Reply by A.J. Corbitt on -
The Article was about milk weed destroying our crops of corn and soybeans, but since the farmer's herbicides kills the milk weed, that means that the monarch butterfly has nowhere to lay their eggs. So, that means that there is a decline in the population since the milk weed is also declining. Others claim that it is not declining in population, since milk weed doesn't take a major role in it's survival.
The Article relates to our class because at the beginning they had a hypothesis that because of the milk weed not being in great numbers anymore, the population in butterfly s is also declining. Many opinions and theorys are at play
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Permalink Reply by Myranda on -
The article was about the use of herbicides to kill the milkweed in the Midwest and whether this is negatively effecting the monarch population. On one side of the argument researchers claim that the use of roundup ready crops that are resistant to herbicides are causing a negative impact on the monarch population. On the other side of the argument the researchers claim that while the herbicide use may be impacting the population it is not close to becoming extinct.
This article relates to our class by the use of researchers forming a hypothesis on whether the herbicide resistant crops are impacting the monarch population. The use of experiments and censuses to determine if a theory could be a established.
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