Re(3): monarch butterflies (fwd)

undone@sirius.com writes:
>  I've seen them nectar at Agapanthus
>-- blue only; -- they tend to prefer blue or lavender flowers

Well, I have a few of these plants. Maybe I need more.


>(Barry has seen Anise Swallowtails at his potted Lobelias -- the
>garden variety, and probably more attractive because elevated by the pot
 
>from the ground).

I have? I dont even grow Lobelias.
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>Tiger Swallowtails are far-ranging butterflies who tend to follow shores,
>streams, and riparian (or riparian-imitating) verges, to glide in and
>around sunny wind-protected glades, and to sip salty moisture from sand,
>mud, and even wet stones.  Tiger Swallowtails are unlikely to be present
>anywhere far from their host plants; they use, and stay in proximity to,
>Lombardy poplars and London planes in San Francisco, since we have left
>damn few of the miles and miles of willows we used to have for them. 
>Barry
>should work on developing a sunny willow/alder/sycamore corridor for them

Well, Willows are very numerous along the Salinas river. I dont know If i
can get a corridor going, since i live in a residential neighborhood, and
I dont have a big yard. 
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>
>I have also seen a male Tiger Swallowtail patrol a peak, but am curious if
>Barry was careful to note the male swallowtails he saw hilltopping as
>Tigers, as distinguished from Anise Swallowtails, of whom that behaviour
>is
>much more typical, particularly here in coastal California.

Well, they looked like Tigers to me. At least from what I have seen. I
wasn't about to try to catch them since the peak of Fremont Peak is a
small granite outcrop, and the drop is a few hundred feet down.
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>Who wrote THIS alarming supposition:
>>It's worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance...
>It's worth the risk of what, may I ask?  Losing invertebrate populations
>without ever knowing what was there, as has happened in so many places? 
>(I
>can send papers about this all too real danger.)


Ugh........that's my signature! It comes from a song. Here is the verse it
is in:

"Each day of my life, i'm filled with all the joy, I could find
You know that I, I'm not the desperate type
If there's one spark of hope, left in my grasp, i'll hold it with both
hands
it's worth the risk of burning, to have a second chance"

from "I Still Believe" - Brenda K. Starr"

It refers to trying to gain back the love you lost, and that even if you
burn because of it, it was worth the effort.



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