Short-lived, non-biting, adult lake fly – Chironomus plumosus. Image credit: Wikipedia Common-sense tells us that, following corn harvest, fragments of corn cobs, leaves, stalks, silk, and pollen – may be blown by the wind or carried across the land surface by runoff, with some portion of such crop residues deposited in the organic sediments of streams lakes and reservoirs. Scientists call the resulting organic stream sediment “detritus.” The rest of us call it ‘muck.’ It follows that if most of the corn being grown is genetically modi… Read the full story on TreeHugger
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Pesticidal Proteins (Bt) From GM Corn Plants Are Now Common In Midwest Streams