permaculture

["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>]

On Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:12:47 -0800, Toby Hemenway
<hemenway@jeffnet.org> wrote:

>I assume  adult butterflies lay eggs directly on the larval food plants, not

>adult food species... what an interesting memory the butterflies must have,

An example of that is the milkweed/Monarch connection. The adult
Monarch butterfly lays its eggs on the (I believe common variety)
mature milkweed plant as far as I know. Every year I see Monarchs
swarming around my volunteer milkweeds with very fragrant, outrageous 
flowers and fantastic seed pods.





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