with the bees getting their stinger's kicked by Monsanto and habitat loss we need all the pollinators we can get!
(call me a hippy but i like eating fruits and vegetables)
Butterflies also have their own problems and need places to not only eat (nectar from most flowers) but for their caterpillars to have a chance. The only thing monarch cats eat are milkweeds, there are tropical milkweeds and giant milkweeds, both make pretty cool flowers (tropical look like a simple version of an epi radicans flower and the giant look like a passiflora flower) and the cat are super fun if you have kids as they can easily be handled and not killed. then you have the benefit of the whole metamorphosis and the chrysalis and so on.
mostly you get a lot of this....
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J Solo, on Flickr
if you don't know about monarchs they are amazing!! they have four annual generations, three of which live in the 2-4 week range and then the fourth gen live 9 months and have to fly across the Gulf of Mexico!!!?!?!
yeah, butterflies, awesome
DO YOUR PART- grow milkweed
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