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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 18, 2019 20:22:15 GMT -5
My friend Steve devotes acres of land to native flowers, and while visiting him recently we checked some milkweed for monarch larvae. I did some research and was surprised to learn there are over 100 species of milkweed!
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Post by stevein on Aug 18, 2019 21:21:31 GMT -5
My nephew's wife planted some Milkweed for the Monarchs.
They have caterpillars now.
I have had a lot of success planting tomatoes for tomato horn worms though.
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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 18, 2019 21:28:31 GMT -5
My nephew's wife planted some Milkweed for the Monarchs. They have caterpillars now. I have had a lot of success planting tomatoes for tomato horn worms though. Ha! Something chewed great holes in several of my green tomatoes this years. Infernal critters, wanting to eat and stuff.  |
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Post by stevein on Aug 18, 2019 21:31:57 GMT -5
I will check it now that I know.
I have not seen any around my place though.
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Post by steiny on Aug 19, 2019 15:00:27 GMT -5
My daughter and grand kids have been playing around with the Monarchs for a couple months now. They've got them in containers in the house in several stages. Pretty neat experience for the grand kids seeing mother nature at work.
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Post by jbird on Aug 19, 2019 15:18:11 GMT -5
I have milk weed naturally and in a decent supply, the iron weed is flowering nicely right now as well. I seem to have a decent amount of butterflies - mostly Monarch and different swallowtails.
Dried milkweed pods make great wind indicators as well!
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Post by duff on Aug 19, 2019 16:36:59 GMT -5
I have the butterfly milkweed but no common milkweed. I saw a big fat cat on one the other day and many of the other plants are missing lots of leaves. I dont mess with helping them by bringing inside.
I have used the fluff for wind checking. It is handy.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 16:44:30 GMT -5
I grow 100 blood milkweed every year and have a few cold weather milkweed. I've been helping the monarchs about a dozen years. Now that includes honey bees.
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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 19, 2019 18:11:53 GMT -5
I grow 100 blood milkweed every year and have a few cold weather milkweed. I've been helping the monarchs about a dozen years. Now that includes honey bees. I will have to look up blood milkweed. The more I learn about plants the less I know! |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 19, 2019 19:32:55 GMT -5
I grow 100 blood milkweed every year and have a few cold weather milkweed. I've been helping the monarchs about a dozen years. Now that includes honey bees. I will have to look up blood milkweed. The more I learn about plants the less I know! It's a southern milkweed and only once had a few make it through winter. Monarchs favorite. |
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Post by nfalls116 on Aug 19, 2019 19:43:03 GMT -5
How would you like it if something came to your kids bedroom and turned it upside down?
#larvaelifematters
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Post by ms660 on Aug 19, 2019 22:09:01 GMT -5
Don't know about butterflies, but always heard the white sap of the milkweed plant was great for the itch of poison ivy.
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Post by parrothead on Aug 20, 2019 5:35:54 GMT -5
I keep a bag of milk weed seed in my hunting truck. I use it to test the wind.
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Post by jbird on Aug 20, 2019 8:36:45 GMT -5
I keep a bag of milk weed seed in my hunting truck. I use it to test the wind. It amazes me how much the air moves that we struggle to detect. Those "fluffs" easily show just how much the air moves and you can see them at a greater distance vs the powders and the like we tend to use on stand. |
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Post by jbird on Aug 20, 2019 8:46:34 GMT -5
I also think wild flowers and native "weeds" are all a part of a healthy habitat. Right now I have iron weed, maxi-sunflower, and golden rod flowering. When other critters benefit from our deer efforts the habitat and ecosystem as a whole benefits. These "weeds" tend to help many insects and other critters like birds, rabbits and other small non-game animals. The pollinators in particular play a vital role in the production of many food sources for both ourselves and wildlife.
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Post by Sasquatch on Aug 20, 2019 19:46:00 GMT -5
How would you like it if something came to your kids bedroom and turned it upside down? #larvaelifematters Actually, in my daughter's case, her room would not look much different if someone turned it upside down. I told her I was coming in there with a dumpster pretty soon. |
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Post by esshup on Aug 20, 2019 19:57:56 GMT -5
How would you like it if something came to your kids bedroom and turned it upside down? #larvaelifematters Actually, in my daughter's case, her room would not look much different if someone turned it upside down. I told her I was coming in there with a dumpster pretty soon. A relative has a daughter that has been complaining about living at home and has been whining in general for the past 6 months about how she's moving out asap. Well, Dad called her bluff, a week before she turned 18 he told her that when he came back from visiting his out of state Mom in a week she had to have her room cleaned up. "Why?" Well, you will be 18 in 6 days and since you will be moving out I'm going to rent out your room. It's been a month and she's still at home........... LOL She took college classes and went to school after regular school so she has her CNA license already (I think) and is working part time, but she's also going to a local school to be a RN now. |
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