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> On Jan 16, 2015, at 10:39 AM, Nicholas Hill <fernhillns@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Re. Swamp Milkweed abundant in some parts of NS
> While there are some large patches of swamp milkweed in some areas, it
> certainly is not common and is ranked S4 by Atlantic Canada
> Conservation Data Centre. Around the City, it is absent from wild
> areas. It comes into stillwater peatlands--fens--around Mount Uniacke,
> it is patchy in similar riparian fen and rarely on lakeshores in the
> southwest. It is common in marshes in the Musquodoboit and Stewiacke
> and probably in many true marshes. I don't think of it as a swamp
> species because it wouldn't do shade. Because it is patchy and locally
> abundant, it stands to reason that planting it in the vicinities in
> between the above areas would help to increase butterfly populations.
> The common milkweed does well on roadsides and dry old fields. The
> swamp milkweed will grow in its natural areas as well as in wet
> meadows that may have been hay fields. It is a good garden plant if
> the soils don't get too droughty (ie. would need to amend sandy soils
> with lots of organic).
> There are lots of other natives that will do for butterflies and MTRI
> (Mersey Tobeatic Research Institute) has been championing this. Joe
> Pye is a super native/garden plant and is great addition to the back
> of flower borders. We need lots of observations by naturalists on
> which plants attract which pollinators. Does anyone know any group
> working in the maritimes who keeps track?
> Nick
> 
> 
> 
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:03 AM, rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca
> <rita.paul@ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>>  Interesting Dave
>> One thing I always wondered if Monarchs only utilized Common Milkweed (
>> Asclepias  syriaca )
>> or do they use Swamp Milkweed ( Asclepias pulchra ) as well?
>> If they use Swamp Milkweed in Nova Scotia there sure isn't any need to plant
>> any
>> as there are many acres in the center of the province.
>> Enjoy the January thaw?
>> Paul
>> 
>> On January 16, 2015 at 8:45 AM David & Alison Webster <dwebster@glinx.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>>    Perhaps Ian is away so I will post this for him.
>> Yt, DW, Kentville
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: David & Alison Webster
>> To: Ian Manning
>> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 6:53 PM
>> Subject: Re: [Aliens-L] How well-intentioned Americans trying to save
>> monarch butterflies may actually be destroying them
>> 
>> Hi Ian,
>>    Very Interesting. Suggest you post it to the list. The devil, as the
>> saying goes, is in the details. Hopefully this news will get spread so
>> gardeners stop planting the wrong kind.
>> Dave
>> 
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: Ian Manning
>> To: David & Alison Webster
>> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2015 5:01 PM
>> Subject: Fwd: [Aliens-L] How well-intentioned Americans trying to save
>> monarch butterflies may actually be destroying them
>> 
>> Dear David,
>> 
>> Read this today, and thought you might be interested.
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ian
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Pamela Zevit Adamah Consultants <adamah@telus.net>
>> Date: 15 January 2015 at 16:12
>> Subject: [Aliens-L] How well-intentioned Americans trying to save monarch
>> butterflies may actually be destroying them
>> To: Issg List < aliens-l@list.auckland.ac.nz>
>> 
>> 
>> Received this through the folks at Xerces Society for Invertebrate
>> Conservation. On southwest coastal BC the western population of Monarchs
>> does breed (rarely) as a transient on its way down to overwinter in
>> California. This is only due to the presence of milkweed grown in people’s
>> gardens (a plant that is not endemic in my region of BC). This is
>> well-intentioned but reminds me of the way in which humans have altered
>> hummingbird migratory pathways through feeders. We now have a species of
>> hummingbird (Anna’s) that overwinters here and would normally starve if it
>> wasn’t for feeders (and I suspect some freeze to death during prolonged cold
>> snaps).
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> I have also noted that to promote pollinator conservation some community
>> gardens or organizations here are using Monarchs as an icon and handing out
>> packets of milkweed seed for people to plant locally. Rather than promoting
>> native species that would benefit a range of pollinators.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> “People love the monarch butterfly, with its beautiful orange and black
>> wings and its endlessly intriguing migratory journey. But some may be loving
>> it to death. That’s the tragic essence of a new study, which suggests the
>> efforts of many backyard gardeners to save the creatures may in fact be
>> unintentionally contributing to their endangerment.”
>> 
>> http://tinyurl.com/mhcbu28
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Pamela Zevit, R.P. Bio
>> Adamah Consultants
>> 
>> Coquitlam BC Canada
>> 604-939-0523
>> 
>> adamah@telus.net
>> 
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