In Northern California, butterflies have been mysteriously disappearing for decades.

According to new research published in Biology Letters, there's even more proof that the butterflies aren't just disappearing because land-use and the climate changing - they're disappearing because humans are killing them with neonicotinoid pesticide use.

The research team - lead by Professor Matthew Forister from the University of Nevada - looked at 40 years of data to separate the different factors that correlate with the declining butterfly population.

The authors found that the butterfly population in Northern California made it a biodiversity hotspot - but that populations have been in decline since the late 1990s without any correlation to recent temperature or land-use changes.

But the decline lines up neatly with the increase use of neonicotinoids - which were first used in 1995 in Northern California.

-Thom

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Article: "This 32-Year-Old Florida Woman Is Dead Because Her State Refused To Expand Medicaid" by Tara Culp-Ressler.

Article: "The Courts Begin to Call Out Lawmakers" by Linda Greenhouse.

Movie: "Bulworth".

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Article: "United States military veteran suicide" by Wikipedia.

Article: "Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement" (TPP) by EFF.

Article: "Private Prison Stocks Crash On News DOJ To Phase Out Their Use" by Tyler Durden.

Article: "Inside the administration's $1 billion deal to detain Central American asylum seekers" by Chico Harlan.

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