Sunday, August 8, 2010

Butterflies

Butterflies with modified wing patterns:

http://www.martademenezes.com/

This is old news, but still relevant:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/May99/Butterflies.bpf.html

"An increasingly popular commercial corn, genetically engineered to produce a bacterial toxin to protect against corn pests, has an unwanted side effect: Its pollen kills monarch butterfly larvae in laboratory tests, according to a report by Cornell University researchers."

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