Some Thoughts While Contemplating
What To Plant In My Spring Garden
“Just living is not enough said the Butterfly,
One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”
Hans Christian Andersen
Music: Where Have All The Flowers Gone
Flowering Milkweed plants once grew wild
All across this wondrous planet we call Earth
But we have poisoned and mowed them down
Like the Dandelion, never considering their worth
And now, besides the decline in bird populations
We are also witnessing huge declines in butterflies
The magnificent Monarch, has declined sixty percent
Our ever increasing penchant for mass destruction is why
The Monarch needs Milkweed and its life-sustaining nectar
But we now wipe out these life-giving plants, like never before
In our construction of subdivisions, factories, and shopping centers
In our spraying of toxic pesticides on crops, and right outside our doors
If we hope to save these tiny magnificent winged creatures from annihilation
We have to begin convincing our governments and our neighbors, to help them
One way that we can accomplish this is to create: ‘Monarch Waystation Habitats’
By planting new Milkweeds in our own areas, so the Monarch populations won’t end
What You Can Do To Help
‘Monarch Waystation Habitats’ are both large and small urban and rural areas that can provide resources necessary for Monarchs to produce successive generations, and to sustain their annual migrations. Without Milkweed plants being available throughout their spring and summer breeding grounds in North America, Monarchs are not be able to produce the successive generations that culminate in their magnificent migrations each fall. Similarly, without nectar from these flowering plants, these migratory monarchs are unable to make their long arduous journey to their wintering grounds in Mexico. The need for host plants for larvae and as energy sources for adults applies to both monarch and other butterfly populations all around the globe.
To offset the tremendous modern day loss of wild milkweeds and other butterfly nectar sources today we need to create, conserve, and protect remaining and future milkweed/monarch habitats. We need to help these monarchs by creating monarch waystations in our own home gardens, at our schools, businesses, parks, zoos, nature centers, along roadsides, and on other unused plots of land. Without a major effort to restore these milkweed plants to as many locations as possible, Earth’s magnificent Monarchs are now certain to continue to decline, and to very sadly, one day too soon, vanish from our planet forever.
For Information On How You Can Help,
Please Visit The Website Linked Below;
I’ve Already Ordered Numerous Milkweed Seeds,
And Hopefully Very Soon, In My Garden They’ll Grow.
©Spring 2013, Mr. Ed
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and milkweed tailored nicely for the Monarch...
I care and no poisons are ever used here for their
delight and haven...
Love and Light
Lily
we don't give a shit, do we? but we will
pay the price...
when will they ever learn? Indeed!
i had an 'invasion' of ants a few weeks back in my kitchen
but i didn't need toxic sprays to get rid of them, i let
my geckos do the work...ants gone, geckos a little plumper;
long live the Monarch!..and i'm not just talking
about the butterfly
Bless you, Ed
john
Blessings,
Christine
Thank you for again!
Amen
would just be toooooooo sad!!!
Lady Vivian
We also whacked the large weirdly striped caterpillars to make sure they didn't crawl on us at a picnic for a while just resting under a tree. We saw many monarch butterflies and knew what they were, but didn't equate them to the caterpillars or the milkweed. It was only after I grew up that I learned the connection.
A fine article, worthy of everyone here to take heed and all grow up.
Ron
Ain't a lie,
According to from Chicago a guy,
From everything that walks on all fours,
To all those things that forever fly,
All are dying off, but can man explain why...? e
Cheers,
Dan
A beautiful Monarch's and other butterflies fate is in our grasp.
A wonderful way to help Mr. Ed. Thank you.
Lady Mary Ann
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