Monarch count in your area?
butterflyman
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Comments (150)~ Container Count / Zone Wars ~ Zone Wars Summary: Zone 3 . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Zone 4 . . . . . . . . . . 443 Zone 5 . . . . . . . . . 3,144 Zone 6 . . . . . . . . . 3,596 Zone 7 . . . . . . . . . 2,184 Zone 8 . . . . . . . . . . 936 Zone 9 . . . . . . . . . . 182 Total Containers: 10,497 Good morning, winter sowers. Hope everyone is enjoying the spring and getting lots of gardening done! Welcome to the count Nana8! Click the Container Count / Zone Wars Spreadsheet to see the container count in detail. ~ Happy Sowing Everybody ~...See Moremonarch needs your help!
Comments (13)I had one with a crumpled wing but could fly a little. I put her outside on my red pentas but she kept falling off into the grass. For two days I kept putting her back up where she would be able to nectar and stay sheltered but she would fall out into the open area and not be able to get up to fly. I finally brought her back in and kept her another 5 days, making sure she nectared from fresh flowers and she would take some liquid from watermelon. I would just replace the flowers several times a day and kept enough in the aquarium so that she didn't fall onto the bottom but stayed up on the flowers. The last day, she didn't want to feed and kept her proboscis curled up. The next morning she was gone. I don't think she would have lasted that long outside but I felt guilty for leaving her to fend for herself the two days. From what I have been told they don't have to nectar the first 24 hours so you know they can go a while without feeding....See MoreMonarchs approaching Red River- Please report your sightings
Comments (67)They also love to eat Rue, an old medicinal type herb, with lovely blue-green, lacy foliage. Precure Nursery sells it, as well as very nice Fennel and Dill plants. I know they don't spray the Dill and Fennel because they are considered food plants, but they may spray the Rue on occasion. If the Rue is sitting on the tables with the Fennel and Dill, it is relatively safe to say it has not been sprayed. If, however, it is located on a table some distance from the Dill and Fennel, it has been sprayed. I know one summer they had a problem with mealy bugs on the Rue, so they moved it to the Perennial plant section and sprayed them. Someone purchased the Rue plants unsuspectingly, and when the cats consumed the Rue, they died. That said, I highly recommend Precure because they sell a lot of butterfly host and nectar plants. I have purchased other host plants such as Blue Crown Passion Vine (for the Gulf Fritillarys), Pussytoes (Antennaria, for the American Ladies), Pearly Everlasting (American Ladies), and other things. Their herb plants are usually pretty good sized. I have to go there today to get more Rue and Fennel, so I can let you know the status of their Rue if you would like. The thing I like about Rue is that it is also the food plant for the Giant Swallowtails, so you would have 2 different butterflies using them for larval food. The Black Swallowtail is Oklahoma's state butterfly, too! If you want to, you could hand-raise a couple of the caterpillars so your daughter can see the life cycle up close. Just use a plastic container, with airholes punched in the lid, small enough the larvae cannot get thru them. I put a paper towel in the bottom (change daily cuz caterpillars poop a lot), and add fresh Dill leaves in the morning and evening, removing whatever is left of the old. I use the plastic containers and cut out the inside portion of the top, put a paper towel over the container and put the lid back on (you will have just the rim of the lid left) or you can cover the entire container with a paper towel secured with a rubber band. When they reach the last instar of growth, they will began to wander around the container and empty their guts. If your container is tall enough, you can put some sticks or something wooden, stand them up or lean them against the sides, and they will pupate either on these or on the sides, top of container. When the cat has found a place to pupate, it will spin a "harness" and position itself securely against the stick or side of the container where it will remain motionless. Eventually, they shed their skin for the last time and in its place is a chrysalis, either brown or green. Inside its interior is turning to liquid and then reconstituting as a butterfly. In about 7-10 days, you will see the chrysalis begin to darken. Within a day or so, the butterfly will slide out of the chrysalis and hang to dry. The wings are all crumpled up and damp looking. Don't disturb it. The butterfly will begin to pump fluid into the wings, the wings will extend and dry. After a few hours, the butterfly will be ready to fly. This may sound difficult, but it is not at all. I have used containers like large, plastic pretzel containers from Sam's Club, mesh cages purchased from Educational Science online, butter/margarine containers, etc. I cover them with paper towels held in place with rubber bands. The most important things are keeping the containers clean, and providing fresh food daily, twice daily when they get big. You will notice them growing and eating more and more. Congrats on your big, beautiful caterpillars! Susan Here is a link that might be useful: Black Swallowtail Life Cycle...See MoreYour Vote Counts! Help me pick a layout
Comments (19)Ohh, and looks like I have a few more replies! Let's see... Emilyam819, totally agree with your thoughts on option 1. It seems so efficient without all the back and forth and backtracking. By the time i add in a prep sink and all the other things to make up for the fact that the stove is b/w sink and fridge, perhaps it is worth the extra cost of the window? Interesting thought regarding coffee station. I hadn't considered that! DH insists on using filtered water for coffee, though, which we usually get from the fridge. So, something else to consider/add if we are gonna be filling coffee pots next to the cleanup sink. This one is actually growing on me, if I was to be completely honest =) Editing to add: When you say coffee will be convenient to fridge for cream in #4... the fridge is over in the opposite side of the kitchen though... unless you added in a mini fridge I don't know about? (don't laugh... i've considered it ;-). Or am I misunderstanding? lharpie, yes, I absolutely, positively refuse to do 3 sinks, LOL. I really do like the idea of the fridge so close to the action, but still easily accessible to the Family Room. With option 3, would you go with cleanup sink and island sink? or cleanup sink and coffee station sink? Cleanup and island seem so close together that they almost seem kind of redundant and just clutter the space up, What do you think?...See MoreLeafhead
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