Re: Re(4): monarch butterflies (fwd)

Dear Barry,
I am the guilty one, I forwarded your letter about your butterflies to
Barbara Deutsch because she is one of the most knowledgable butterfly
gardeners I know. I met her at the spring Strybing Arboretum plant sale,
where she was showing Calif. native plants & the butterfly eggs, larvae
and butterflies on them. She takes part in the annual San Francisco Bay
Area butterfly count (much like the annual Audubon Soc. bird count), and
she likes to receive notices of where people have seen butterflies. She is
a good resource for school teachers who want to plant butterfly gardens in
their school yards, and she is active in the effort to plant butterfly
corridors along railroad verges, public walkways, city lots, etc., etc.,
etc. in our area.
Elly Bade

On Fri, 28 Jan 2000, Barry Garcia wrote:

> undone@sirius.com writes:
> >Dear Barry GARCIA,
> >
> >Sorry for the confusion!  My husband Barry DEUTSCH has seen Anise
> >Swallowtails taking nectar from potted Lobelias at his office!
> 
> Oh ok. I see. I'm used to being the only Barry mentioned here on the list
> :).
> >
> >
> >Why not a willow corridor in a residential neighborhood?  It would make a
> >wonderful buffer zone between yards.  There was a "tithing to nature"
> >program in Austria when I last visited, whereby each property owner set
> >aside ten % of his land for habitat.  Do you think your neighbours might
> >consider it?
> 
> Well problem is, the area of town in which I live is not Willow habitat.
> Also a lot of home owners would be worried about willow roote getting into
> pipes. I actually live in a coast live oak woodland habitat, so if I did
> plant native trees (trust me, there is not enough room in my yard for a Q.
> Agrifolia), i'd plant Q. Agrifolia. I could however, plant coffee berry
> since it does grow in the oak woodland habitat, and as others have pointed
> out is the food for the larvae. Also, i don't think I could get any of my
> neighbors to agree to something like that, as i'm never around enough to
> try to organize things like that (school and all). Anyway, I did buy some
> Ceanothus griseuses today, and if the blue flowers attract like you say
> they do, i should see more butterflies.
> >
> >
> >Tiger Swallowtails are equilaterally triangular in shape.  They fly
> >generally higher, in a more gliding fashion, than the usually darting
> >(especially if male) Anise Swallowtail.  Tigers are soft butter yellow,
> >vertically and thinly striped with black that does not so arrest the eye
> >as
> >does the black leading edge of the strikingly two-toned Anise Swallowtail.
> >If you take time to become familiar with the differences in appearance and
> >manner of movement, there's no need to catch them.
> 
> Hmm, well I do remember the butterflies I saw up on the peak being a soft
> butter yellow. Other than that, all I remember is the distinctive tails,
> and black markings. However, I wouldn't mind the anise swallow tail. It's
> a lot better than the rather over-common cabbage white. 
> I do see monarchs from time to time, but since I dont have any Milk weeds
> they don't come here too often. Which is the reason I bought seeds for
> Asclepias tuberosa, and A. curassavica (i think the flowers of A.
> curassavica are some of the most brilliant i've seen in a while). I didn't
> buy seed for the native species of milk weed because I can find it fairly
> easy (and it's not too attractive to me either, sorry).
> 
> 
> 
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