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10 Poisonous Plants You Might Have Around Your Home and Yard
What To Do if a Child or Pet Eats a Poisonous Plant We invite plants from all over the world into our homes and gardens. But ...
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Gene editing can make fruit flies into ‘monarch flies’
the ability to digest milkweed toxins and become poisonous to predators. Making just three genetic changes turned regular fruit flies into “monarch flies,” able to withstand plant toxins and ...
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GM corn poses little threat to monarch
Cornell entomologist John Losey used a low toxic strain of pollen. He presented new research in Chicago showing that adult monarchs avoided laying eggs on milkweed leaves near corn plants and ...
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Rare Milkweed Gains Endangered Species Protection, Critical Habitat
RIO GRANDE CITY, Texas— The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service today protected the prostrate milkweed as endangered. Only 24 populations of the plant survive, in south Texas and northern Mexico, where ...