In the summer of 2013, Sonia Altizer, Ph.D., (A professor and the Associate Dean of Academic Affairs in the Odum School of Ecology at the University of Georgia.) and a team of well-known butterfly researchers conducted a research project to identify the number of butterflies being sold for release that were infected with OE. The result was extremely unflattering to the industry – 12 of the 14 shipments contained heavily contaminated butterflies and no shipment was OE-free. While this study has not been published, enough people know about it that it can be used against the release industry. The study covers only small number of farms and is limited. It may represent only a tiny fraction of the butterflies released and is informative but not comprehensive. However, there is absolutely no way that this is good news for us. Despite our claims to the contrary, there are reasons to believe that a number of farms are not keeping up the standards the AFB Code of Ethics require.