From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lflondon@mindspring.com>
To: permaculture
Subject: Re: air shows
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 15:55:39 -0500
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.