OT: Monarch Butterflies need your help

[Winfield Hill]

Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

On 18 Oct 2019 19:00:57 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.

We had clouds of Monarchs last month. Driving out I80, it looked like
a mass aerial attack. We thought they were bats at first. Our car
grille was filled with smashed butterflies and the windshield was a
mess.

Things like Monarchs lay a lot of eggs, ca 500. So a very small
population in a bad year can create a huge population the next year.




--

John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc

lunatic fringe electronics

 

[Lasse Langwadt Christense]

lørdag den 19. oktober 2019 kl. 04.01.09 UTC+2 skrev Winfield Hill:

Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.

here a few cities have started replacing grass along roads and such
with a mix of wild flowers

https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/admin/public/getimage.ashx?Image=/Files/Billeder/Rethink%20Urban%20Habitats/Midterrabat%20-%20Lars%20Br%C3%B8ndum.jpg&Resolution=72&Compression=90&Width=1000

 

[Martin Riddle]

On 18 Oct 2019 19:00:57 -0700, Winfield Hill <winfieldhill@yahoo.com>
wrote:

Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.

The south shore beaches of LI here ususally have loads of Monarchs in
September. They seem to like to hang out on the dune grass. Milkweed
is also a popular plant in cemetaries.

Cheers

 

[George Herold]

On Friday, October 18, 2019 at 10:01:09 PM UTC-4, Winfield Hill wrote:

Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.


--
Thanks,
- Win

 

[gray_wolf]

On 10/18/2019 9:20 PM, Lasse Langwadt Christensen wrote:

lørdag den 19. oktober 2019 kl. 04.01.09 UTC+2 skrev Winfield Hill:
Got an email saying Monarch Butterflies need our help,
and asking for donations. A better solution: plant
and encourage milkweed flowers. This year we had not
only non-native, but also indigenous varieties, weeds,
really. Don't pull them out! We had seven different
large plants, and they were home for many Monarch's
all summer. They stayed for many days, and rarely
went to a different type of flower.


here a few cities have started replacing grass along roads and such
with a mix of wild flowers

https://www.naturhistoriskmuseum.dk/admin/public/getimage.ashx?Image=/Files/Billeder/Rethink%20Urban%20Habitats/Midterrabat%20-%20Lars%20Br%C3%B8ndum.jpg&Resolution=72&Compression=90&Width=1000


Nice! They do that in Texas.