Here's another example of pesticide impact research 
conducted by a beginning assistant professor that 
was not fully relevant to actual field conditions:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uopm-rhl040105.php

"assistant professor of biology Rick Relyea found that Roundup®,
the second most commonly applied herbicide in the United States,
is "extremely lethal" to amphibians.... and the results may provide a key
link to global amphibian declines."

The anti-GMO groups announced:
"Monsanto's Roundup Killing Frogs, Amphibians Worldwide"
http://www.rense.com/general67/mons.htm

But what all these alarming reports and websites fail to mention is
that frogs continue to be abundant in exactly the areas where
Roundup is used the most heavily:  around the Roundup Ready
corn, soybean and cotton fields of the Midwest USA.
Frogs like this one
http://i85.photobucket.com/albums/k75/4af/frogb.jpg
were so abundant last summer in southern Minnesota
and Iowa I estimated the density to be up to one frog per
two square yards of Roundup Ready crop margin.   I also 
observed frogs in abundance recently around the margins 
of Roundup Ready cotton in western Texas.

Paul Cherubini
El Dorado, Calif.

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