Grow Milkweed Plants Podcast
Episode 18
Common Milkweed in Omaha Nebraska. Zorinsky Lake Park is host to three kinds of milkweed
Thank you Rachel C. the "ORIGINAL Butterfly" aka O.B.
Instagram @rc337 Butterfly 👊
Rachel C. is kicking butt & growing milkweed in Indianapolis IN. She found the Grow Milkweed Plants podcast with a simple search for "Monarch Butterfly" in iTunes. Thank you for being a listener and an even bigger THANK YOU for growing milkweed plants! Rachel is one of many butterfly heroes. 👊 |
Avis Rental Car, I just wanted to share this photo that my grandpa Frank took when him and grandma Mildred visited Hawaii in 1987. It's not relevant but I thought it would be fun to share. I rented with Avis at Omaha. The Dodge Dart had really good traction control but the parking break was to easy to drive over. I will leave it at that.
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THE STORY OF AN ORGANISM: COMMON MILKWEEDBy: Craig Holdrege
Long before you come close enough to a colony to be able to see its flowers, you can smell that it is in full bloom. The sweet scent of the nectar-filled flowers carries far. As you approach the colony you see the rich-pink flowering spheres and a multitude of insects crawling and flying around. Honey bees, native bees such as bumbles bees, ants, and a variety of butterflies move from flower to flower, umbel to umbel, drinking nectar from the blossoms. Along the way they pollinate the flowers, a strangely intricate process related to the complex anatomy of milkweed flowers that I will discuss below. Read the full text: THE STORY OF AN ORGANISM: COMMON MILKWEED
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Thank you Mona L. Miller for sending me the link to the details about Asclepias syriaca. Mona is active on facebook and has created very useful resources in her group at Raising Butterflies and Moths for Conservation new members are welcome to join. Here is an abbreviated description of Raising Butterflies and Moths for Conservation "Limited to members and discussion of North American countries only (Canada, United States, Mexico, etc.). Let's get the Monarch butterfly population back on track. Our passion is butterflies, moths, plants, and pollinators (butterflies, moths, native bees and non native bees, hummingbirds, etc.). Our focus is North America because it is home to millions of Monarch Butterflies (Danaus plexippus) and many other species of butterflies, moths, and pollinators. Our mission is to create safe havens for wildlife."
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Clasping milkweed, Asclepias Amplexicaulis
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