So I weeded after a day of good rain, and a new friend and I are going set the seed. Other milkweed seed sprouted, from previous summers. This afternoon, weeding, I found a monarch caterpillar. I've never seen one here. I dare not touch it, these fingers are not so soft. It has been eating this young, flattened common milkweed. There is a budding forest behind it, behind my clementine. I've only seen maybe three monarch butterfly here this season.
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I was able to obtain some milkweed starts and planted them out at random in a vacant (unused) field near where I live. We've had some early heat combined with less-than-usual rainfall here, however, so only a few have survived. Hopefully, they will live to produce seed for next season
Haven't seen any Monarchs yet this year....
I saw two monarch caterpillar in my garden!
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I'm doing my part for the monarchs... Hopefully they won't become like the passenger pigeons... In 1866, a billion-strong flock of passenger pigeons, 300 miles long and one mile wide, darkened the skies of Ontario for 14 hours as they flew overhead.
But less 50 years later, these impressive creatures, once abundant in North America, became extinct as a result of cutting down forests and hunting by humans. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2662662/Could-passenger-pigeon-raised-DEAD-Scientists-spend-millions-revive-extinct-bird-using-centuries-old-DNA.html
I saw one more at the stead last week. But I also saw a big fox and a wild turkey. It continues to be much greener than the past few years. I credit the imported good energy of my rainmakers.
Wonder if we can raise them from worms to be more? I used to bring in lady bugs to eat my garden bugs.
Wonder if we can raise them from worms to be more? I used to bring in lady bugs to eat my garden bugs.
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