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Cleita

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Sat Aug 23, 2014, 04:12 PM Aug 2014

GMOs in our ornamentals? [View all]

I hope it's okay if I drop in your group, but I've been noticing something different in my plants, particularly annuals lately. It seems there are fewer bugs and butterflies. I used to have lots of lady bugs but haven't seen one lately, very few butterflies and wasps as well as bees. Since I don't use pesticides, chemical fertilizers or herbicides, I started wondering why. Maybe it's the drought we are going through, but OTOH I still have ants and snails.

However when I put out hanging baskets of flowers for hummingbirds of flowers they like, they haven't gone to them but to flowering bushes I planted years ago. I buy seedlings at the nursery to plant. Has Monsanto started interfering with our garden plants too? Has anyone else noticed this?

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