Agricultural insecticides were a key factor, according to a study focused on the Midwest, though researchers emphasized the importance of climate change and habitat loss.
Especially detrimental, the researchers found, was a class of widely used insecticides called neonicotinoids that are absorbed into the tissues of plants.
So yes, Monsanto, as well as other firms which manufacture and sell that class of pesticide.
Monsanto’s Roundup also caused a big drop in monarch populations, because Roundup means that there is a lot less milkweed, but that effect already bottomed out, since it’s used almost everywhere already.
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So yes, Monsanto, as well as other firms which manufacture and sell that class of pesticide.
Monsanto’s Roundup also caused a big drop in monarch populations, because Roundup means that there is a lot less milkweed, but that effect already bottomed out, since it’s used almost everywhere already.