The Year the Monarch Didn’t Appear | Cornucopia Institute:"“There’s no question that the loss of habitat is huge,” said Douglas Tallamy, a professor of entomology at the University of Delaware, who has long warned of the perils of disappearing insects.
“We notice the monarch and bees because they are iconic insects,” he said.
“But what do you think is happening to everything else?”A big part of it is the way the United States farms.
As the price of corn has soared in recent years, driven by federal subsidies for biofuels, farmers have expanded their fields.
That has meant plowing every scrap of earth that can grow a corn plant, including millions of acres of land once reserved in a federal program for conservation purposes."
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