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78One year in the backyard
This hub was getting so large it was beginning to slow down. So I've continued the narrative in a hub, One Year in the Backyard, Part II. Check out the latest there. A blue jay scans the yard from a dead...
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80Common Edible Wild Plants - Part II
There were times in my childhood when we were probably poor, but I certainly didn't know it. I didn't connect the right dots, when wild rice cakes, dandelion salad, fried milkweed pods, and day lily fritters...
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81Swan Plant is a food plant for Monarch caterpillars
The Monarch butterfly caterpillar can only eat plants in the Milkweed family (Asclepiadaceae) and one of these that grows quite large so provides plenty of food and is easily cultivated and very ornamental in...
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70Recycled plastic water bottles help Monarch Butterfly conservation
Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) have been having a hard time of it in many areas of the world. Habitat destruction, pesticides and lack of their foodplants have all taken a heavy toll, and even pollen...
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62Mexico's Magnificent Monarchs
Teetering twixt timber interests and ecologists With no little relief, I have turned from writing about creepy-crawlies such as spiders, scorpions and centipedes, interesting and valuable as they are....
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68Roadside Prairies: Flowers or Weeds?
Growing up in the Midwest I learned to appreciate many different kinds of plants; from the crops of the farmers to the plants growing in the roadside ditches. Most people would call the plants in the ditches...
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78The Tenerife butterfly and moth rescue team
In past issues of the Tenerife Sun I have written about my ongoing project to help increase the numbers of the beautiful Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) on the island, and I am very happy to say that I...
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68Monarch Butterfly Migration
Millions of Monarch Butterflies migrate from Mexico to North America every spring. The journey begins in Mid March and ends in June. The Monarchs spend the winter months feeding in Mexico before taking off...
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67Butterfly farming on a balcony
Earlier this year I wrote about my one-man conservation project to help the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus) here on Tenerife and I managed to rear nine to their glorious adult form feeding them on plants...
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68The Monarch Butterfly
The Monarch Butterfly From underneath the leaf of a milkweed plant, A new life is born, at first so scant. Its egg is no larger than the head of a pin. What a huge world for a tiny life to begin....
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