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Old 01-12-2013, 12:02 AM posted to rec.gardens
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Default Planting Milkweed for butterflies

On Saturday, November 30, 2013 12:15:03 PM UTC-8, songbird wrote:
Higgs Boson wrote:



...re milkweed...

Just a thought...




with so much of them being killed off by

overspray from the fields around here i let

them run around the edges of the gardens and

ditches here when they show up.



we don't see monarch butterflies that often

any longer, but at least if they do show up

they have food.

Good on ya!

What do they eat? Something other than milkweed?

Your climate being, uh, "continental", when do they show up & when do they leave -- if you've had a chance to notice?

TIA

HB