Angela's Grandbutter
Nov 8, 2017 14:10:00 #
STVest wrote:
Thanks for looking and for your kind comment, Mike! 
Angela was kind enough to send me some milkweed seeds and I will be joining the effort to Save Our Monarchs! I will definitely add Joe-Pye weed to my list of nectar plants to grow. Weeds are one of the things I seem to be really good at growing!
Angela was kind enough to send me some milkweed seeds and I will be joining the effort to Save Our Monarchs! I will definitely add Joe-Pye weed to my list of nectar plants to grow. Weeds are one of the things I seem to be really good at growing!
Very good. They are pretty amazing. It takes more than one generation for them to complete their migration route from Mexico to Canada and back. We are the last stop, and the ones born here somehow make their way back to a relatively small area in Mexico that their great grandparents came from.
I think the weak link in the chain is the second and third step in the migration because of the lack of Milkweed plants now for breeding in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, etc. We have a lot of Milkweed here in the North, because there is not much row crop farming happening, so that is not such a worry here. We do want to make sure the adults have adequate food sources to get started on the long journey back south. They strongly prefer Joe Pye weed for nectar.
MIke
Nov 8, 2017 16:05:53 #
STVest wrote:
Thanks, Angela. It gives me so much hope for next year and the year after that and . . . ! I had decided that Monarchs had me on a "DO NOT VISIT" list. I suppose I'll be out every day from now till frost looking for him or one of his brothers. 
Sherry, I was on that same list for years and all I can say is.... plant it and they will come!!! At least that's what happened to me!!
Nov 9, 2017 10:12:02 #
STVest wrote:
stopped by for a much too brief visit! Thank you Angela for giving him my address. And thanks to all of you Growers of Milkweed. This is the first Monarch I have ever had visit and I want more!
Nice photo.
Nov 9, 2017 12:21:15 #
Nov 15, 2017 09:34:38 #
STVest wrote:
stopped by for a much too brief visit! Thank you Angela for giving him my address. And thanks to all of you Growers of Milkweed. This is the first Monarch I have ever had visit and I want more!
wow...i hope angela gave him my address too...lol. beautiful monarch and beautiful shot, sherry.
Nov 15, 2017 16:09:02 #
merrytexan wrote:
wow...i hope angela gave him my address too...lol. beautiful monarch and beautiful shot, sherry.
Thanks, merry! I kept an eye out for him for the next couple of days, to no avail.
But it sure gives me hope for the future!! Gotta get the milkweed and Joe-Pye weed planted!
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