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Significant Population Decline from High Intensity Agriculture with Pesticides Source:  TUM Harmony Blue Butterfly Butterfly Populations Down by Two-Thirds This is important new research from the Technical University of Munich on how industrial agriculture and the use of pesticides are decimating butterfly populations.  The research is focused on Germany but it is a wake-up call globally.  In Germany, meadows adjacent to high intensity farming areas are now home to less than half of the butterfly species than areas in nature preserves.  The number of individual butterflies is down by a third.  It's the pesticides that are destroying species of butterflies and the negative impact of industrialized farming. Why is that important?  Butterflies are pollinators and critical to global food supplies. Need for New Green Solutions The research is based in Germany, its farms and environment, which is home to 189 butterfly species.  Of that number, a...