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02-02-2004, 02:20 AM
Mark
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Butterflies???
(Jon) wrote in message . com...
Hey everyone,
I'm getting a little ahead of myself by asking this question since I
dont have a garden yet
but I would like to know a little about
using butterflies for pollination.
I know that you need milkweed to sustain a butterfly population since
they lay their eggs on it. It would also help to keep them around. In
an open garden.
In a greenhouse enviroment how big would it approximatly have to be
before one could use butterflies to do the pollinating instead of
doing it by hand (besides having butterflies around is nice)?
Will they pollinate all veggies?
Problems with using butterflies to pollinate, predators etc.?
I personally wouldn't want a large population of butterfiles around my
garden. I say this only because there are a few that lay eggs on your
veggies; the eggs hatch out little caterpillars that make short work
of eating the things they hatch on: cabbage worms come to mind.
Butterflies are cute, but I got fed up with cabbage worms decimating
my brussel sprouts this past summer.
Mark
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