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2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARRIVE IN TEXAS TO FREEZE-STUNTED The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN GARDEN BECKONS WILDLIFE AND One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers and REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. HOW TO RAISE EASTERN SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES AT HOME Monarch butterflies get all the press, but the Eastern or Black Swallowtail, Papillio polyxenes, a large blue, black and gold and cream-specked beauty, flies in our neck of the world from April through November. The Texas native provides lots COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to LOATHED BY GARDENERS, TOMATO HORNWORMS MORPH INTO Loathed by gardeners in its caterpillar stage, the Manduca quinquemaculata, or tomato hornworm, has eight V-shaped marks on each side and a signature horn on the rear. Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
FROSTWEED EARNS ITS NAME WITH INTRIGUING ICE SCULPTURES Frostweed earns its name with intriguing ice sculptures upon first frost. The first frost of the season hit our Llano River ranch last weekend, a month later than the average November 15 first frost date prescribed by gardening buffs, farmer’s almanacs and the National Climate Data Center. On December 18, temperatures dropped a dramatic60
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARRIVE IN TEXAS TO FREEZE-STUNTED The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN GARDEN BECKONS WILDLIFE AND One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers and REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. HOW TO RAISE EASTERN SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES AT HOME Monarch butterflies get all the press, but the Eastern or Black Swallowtail, Papillio polyxenes, a large blue, black and gold and cream-specked beauty, flies in our neck of the world from April through November. The Texas native provides lots COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to LOATHED BY GARDENERS, TOMATO HORNWORMS MORPH INTO Loathed by gardeners in its caterpillar stage, the Manduca quinquemaculata, or tomato hornworm, has eight V-shaped marks on each side and a signature horn on the rear. Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
FROSTWEED EARNS ITS NAME WITH INTRIGUING ICE SCULPTURES Frostweed earns its name with intriguing ice sculptures upon first frost. The first frost of the season hit our Llano River ranch last weekend, a month later than the average November 15 first frost date prescribed by gardening buffs, farmer’s almanacs and the National Climate Data Center. On December 18, temperatures dropped a dramatic60
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. OUR SHOP – TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH The signs are 9”x12” and printed on sturdy, weather-proof aluminum. They can take the heat and extreme weather, mounted on a stake, hung on a wall, displayed in a window or wired to a fence. The sign has two holes for mounting; hardware not included. Signs are $25, plus $4.50 postage and handling. We pack and ship signs each Friday. NATIONAL BUTTERFLY CENTER SHOWS RESILIENCE IN FACE OF The feisty South Texan has spent thousands of hours explaining why seizing private property and building a wall through one of the mostpristine and
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARRIVE IN TEXAS TO FREEZE-STUNTED The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO RAISE EASTERN SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES AT HOME Monarch butterflies get all the press, but the Eastern or Black Swallowtail, Papillio polyxenes, a large blue, black and gold and cream-specked beauty, flies in our neck of the world from April through November. The Texas native provides lots BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
LOATHED BY GARDENERS, TOMATO HORNWORMS MORPH INTO Loathed by gardeners in its caterpillar stage, the Manduca quinquemaculata, or tomato hornworm, has eight V-shaped marks on each side and a signature horn on the rear. Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. THAT AIN’T NO MONARCH: MEET THESE OTHER CATERPILLARS THAT More than any other, the caterpillars of Monarch butterflies are most closely associated with eating milkweed–anything in the Asclepias family. With their distinctive black, white and gold pin-striped suits and expressive dark tentacles reaching out into the universe, that’sno surprise.
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. OUR SHOP – TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH The signs are 9”x12” and printed on sturdy, weather-proof aluminum. They can take the heat and extreme weather, mounted on a stake, hung on a wall, displayed in a window or wired to a fence. The sign has two holes for mounting; hardware not included. Signs are $25, plus $4.50 postage and handling. We pack and ship signs each Friday. NATIONAL BUTTERFLY CENTER SHOWS RESILIENCE IN FACE OF The feisty South Texan has spent thousands of hours explaining why seizing private property and building a wall through one of the mostpristine and
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARRIVE IN TEXAS TO FREEZE-STUNTED The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO RAISE EASTERN SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES AT HOME Monarch butterflies get all the press, but the Eastern or Black Swallowtail, Papillio polyxenes, a large blue, black and gold and cream-specked beauty, flies in our neck of the world from April through November. The Texas native provides lots BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
LOATHED BY GARDENERS, TOMATO HORNWORMS MORPH INTO Loathed by gardeners in its caterpillar stage, the Manduca quinquemaculata, or tomato hornworm, has eight V-shaped marks on each side and a signature horn on the rear. Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an NATIONAL BUTTERFLY CENTER SHOWS RESILIENCE IN FACE OF The feisty South Texan has spent thousands of hours explaining why seizing private property and building a wall through one of the mostpristine and
2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an NATIONAL BUTTERFLY CENTER SHOWS RESILIENCE IN FACE OF The feisty South Texan has spent thousands of hours explaining why seizing private property and building a wall through one of the mostpristine and
2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its REDUCED MONARCH BUTTERFLY POPULATION HEADS NORTH FROM The number of this year’s overwintering monarchs dropped 26% from last year, World Wildlife Fund officials announced last week. All the migrating monarch butterflies east of the Rocky Mountains, which pass through Texas during their spring and fall migrations, occupied only 2.1 hectares of forest at the Mexican overwintering sites.MONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARRIVE IN TEXAS TO FREEZE-STUNTED The 2021 monarch butterfly migration is underway. The population, down 28% from last year, arrives in Texas from Mexico as gardens and landscapes are recovering from Storm Uri. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers and MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO RAISE EASTERN SWALLOWTAIL BUTTERFLIES AT HOME Monarch butterflies get all the press, but the Eastern or Black Swallowtail, Papillio polyxenes, a large blue, black and gold and cream-specked beauty, flies in our neck of the world from April through November. The Texas native provides lots BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. BABY, IT’S COLD OUTSIDE: WHAT TO DO WITH LATE SEASON A frequent question this time of year: what to do with a late season butterfly? Crazy, unpredictable weather has become routine. “Fall” is an extension of a lesser summer while “Winter” constitutes cool evenings and days punctuated by sunshine and temperatures that climbinto the 70s.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to LOATHED BY GARDENERS, TOMATO HORNWORMS MORPH INTO Loathed by gardeners in its caterpillar stage, the Manduca quinquemaculata, or tomato hornworm, has eight V-shaped marks on each side and a signature horn on the rear. Manduca sexta, the tobacco hornworm, closely resembles its tomato preferring cousin, but shows seven diagonal white lines on its sides and a curved horn. MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
ARTICLES – TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Reduced monarch butterfly population heads north from Mexico in wake of historic Texas freeze. Monika Maeckle 2021-03-03T23:51:03-06:00.March 3rd, 2021.
MONARCH BUTTERFLY AND POLLINATOR FESTIVAL The Texas Butterfly Ranch is proud to present the fifth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. The Festival will unfold online this year throughout October. All events are FREE and open to the public. Join us and learn about the majesty of the migration, the importance of the wildlife pollinators that make one out of everythree
DOUG TALLAMY PROPOSES Post by @monikam. Citing current research, Tallamy notes t hat introduced plants have a direct impact on the quantity of life and overall quality of an ecosystem. But a Homegrown National Park stocked with geographically suited native plants will provide food, fodder and shelter for the local creatures that provide the ecosystem resources we need to keep the planet healthy. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers andMONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. HERE THEY COME! MONARCH BUTTERFLIES HEADING SOUTH IN WHAT SAN ANTONIO — Monarch butterflies have begun their southbound migration in what could be a banner year. The iconic black and orange butterflies will start arriving here in the coming weeks, with peak migration for our latitude slated for October 10 – 22, just in time for our fourth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival.. Recent reports from Canada and Maine, the northernmost COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
ARTICLES – TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Reduced monarch butterfly population heads north from Mexico in wake of historic Texas freeze. Monika Maeckle 2021-03-03T23:51:03-06:00.March 3rd, 2021.
MONARCH BUTTERFLY AND POLLINATOR FESTIVAL The Texas Butterfly Ranch is proud to present the fifth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. The Festival will unfold online this year throughout October. All events are FREE and open to the public. Join us and learn about the majesty of the migration, the importance of the wildlife pollinators that make one out of everythree
DOUG TALLAMY PROPOSES Post by @monikam. Citing current research, Tallamy notes t hat introduced plants have a direct impact on the quantity of life and overall quality of an ecosystem. But a Homegrown National Park stocked with geographically suited native plants will provide food, fodder and shelter for the local creatures that provide the ecosystem resources we need to keep the planet healthy. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers andMONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. HERE THEY COME! MONARCH BUTTERFLIES HEADING SOUTH IN WHAT SAN ANTONIO — Monarch butterflies have begun their southbound migration in what could be a banner year. The iconic black and orange butterflies will start arriving here in the coming weeks, with peak migration for our latitude slated for October 10 – 22, just in time for our fourth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival.. Recent reports from Canada and Maine, the northernmost COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet. TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH SHOP. Search for: Learn More Online and Outdoors TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Raising awareness and understanding of wildlife pollinators and the ecosystems that sustain them—and us. ARTICLES. Texas Butterfly Ranch Monika Maeckle 2020-12-18T11:52:32-06:00. TROPICAL MILKWEED IMPACT ON MONARCH BUTTERFLIES “VASTLY James’ early research suggests that non-reproductive and migratory monarch populations in Australia are not adversely affected by the presence of non-native and other ”tropical” milkweeds such as Gomphocarpus fruticosus, an African milkweed sometimes called Swan plant or Balloon plant. “In fact,” said James, the presence of milkweed appears to be a prerequisite for the choice of an 2020 UNOFFICIAL POLLINATOR PLANT OF THE YEAR: GREGG’S The votes are in for 2020’s Unofficial Pollinator Plant of the Year, and the winner isGregg’s mistflower, Conoclinium greggii. The Texas native perennial with fluffy lavender blooms carried our informal poll when pitted against Frostweed, Verbesina virginica , its BEESAT HONEY, ANYONE? SAN ANTONIO APIARY PROGRAM BRINGS San Antonio Airport fosters new flights through bees from San Antonio Report on Vimeo. “BEESAT is a way for us to to partner with our community and neighbors about the imperatives of environmental stewardship,” said Robbins. “It’s putting back all that’s good for us.”. With the help of Gilbert and airport staff, the programplans to
CATERPILLAR CANNIBALISM UPDATE: MONARCH BUTTERFLY In a recent post on caterpillar cannibalism we invited others to share their testimonials of seeing caterpillars eat their brethren eggs or caterpillars. Edith Smith of Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sent along the following photos that rival a science fiction movie. Thanks, Edith for sharing the gory–but informative–photos. GOT MILKWEED? UPDATED PLANT GUIDE FOR CENTRAL AND SOUTH Theories abound on the appropriateness–or not–of Tropical milkweed in Central and South Texas. The plant originated in Central America and has gradually moved north. Dr. Chip Taylor, founder of Monarch Watch, points out that Tropical milkweed is the plant on which Monarch butterflies evolved. HOW TO GET TEXAS NATIVE MILKWEED SEEDS TO GERMINATE Our friends at Native American Seed have been working for years on the best way to get persnickety Texas native milkweed seeds to germinate. “Native milkweeds simply don’t do well in containers,” said George Cates, seed wrangler at the seed farm and land restoration company in the Hill Country town of Junction. GUIDANCE ON MILKWEED MANAGEMENT CONFUSES BUTTERFLY Guidance on milkweed management confuses butterfly gardeners. Confusion reigns for gardeners and Monarch butterfly enthusiasts trying to “do the right thing” managing their late season milkweed, the host plant of Monarch butterflies. Monarch laying eggs on Swamp milkweed, Asclepias incarnata, in downtown San AntonioNovember 15, 2015.
COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEEDCOWPEN DAISYTEXAS
Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to MILKWEED SHORTAGE SPARKS “ALTERNATIVE FUELS” FOR HUNGRY Reid shared a photo of “pumpkin frass”–orange colored butterfly poop which is produced in volumes in the final stages of the caterpillars metamorphosis. Usually the frass is dark green or even brown, but “pumpkin frass” looks like the food that fueled it. The frass, or butterfly poop, of pumpkin fed Monarch caterpillars reflectsthe
ARTICLES – TEXAS BUTTERFLY RANCH Reduced monarch butterfly population heads north from Mexico in wake of historic Texas freeze. Monika Maeckle 2021-03-03T23:51:03-06:00.March 3rd, 2021.
MONARCH BUTTERFLY AND POLLINATOR FESTIVAL The Texas Butterfly Ranch is proud to present the fifth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. The Festival will unfold online this year throughout October. All events are FREE and open to the public. Join us and learn about the majesty of the migration, the importance of the wildlife pollinators that make one out of everythree
DOUG TALLAMY PROPOSES Post by @monikam. Citing current research, Tallamy notes t hat introduced plants have a direct impact on the quantity of life and overall quality of an ecosystem. But a Homegrown National Park stocked with geographically suited native plants will provide food, fodder and shelter for the local creatures that provide the ecosystem resources we need to keep the planet healthy. WHEREHOUSEBARN POLLINATOR RAIN One of many defining attributes of the Wherehousebarn is the newly installed pollinator rain garden that connects the two warehouses. With the help of Charles Bartlett and Albert Del Rio, local landscape experts at Green Haven Industries, Inc., the former driveway has been transformed into a pollinator habitat that already has brought diverse wildlife–as well as okra, cucumbers andMONIKA MAECKLE
With a long career in media and marketing, Maeckle is founder and writer for the Texas Butterfly Ranch website and founder and director of San Antonio’s Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival. With her husband, Robert Rivard, she also cofounded San Antonio’s independent nonprofit news site, the Rivard Report, which rebranded in 2020 as MONARCH BUTTERFLY NUMBERS DROP 53% AS SPRING MIGRATION Monarch butterfly expert Karen Oberhauser, in a special letter to members of Journey North, a citizen science organization that tracks wildlife migrations including monarchs, put the population drop in perspective. “Saying that the population decreased 53% from last year is not very informative,” wrote Oberhauser, director of the University of Wisconsin Arboretum. HERE THEY COME! MONARCH BUTTERFLIES HEADING SOUTH IN WHAT SAN ANTONIO — Monarch butterflies have begun their southbound migration in what could be a banner year. The iconic black and orange butterflies will start arriving here in the coming weeks, with peak migration for our latitude slated for October 10 – 22, just in time for our fourth annual Monarch Butterfly and Pollinator Festival.. Recent reports from Canada and Maine, the northernmost COWPEN DAISY: HOW TO GROW VERBESINA ENCELIOIDES FROM SEED Like many members of the sunflower family, Cowpen Daisy, Verbesina encelioides, germinates easily from seed.Sometimes called Butter Daisy or Golden Crownbeard, Cowpen Daisy is sometimes included in native seed mixes, but it’s almost impossible to QUEEN, MONARCH CATERPILLARS AND BUTTERFLIES: HOW TO TELL Every year around this time as the Queen butterflies start to show up, we get lots of questions about how to tell the difference between Queens, Danaus gilippus, and Monarchs, Danaus plexippus.. And with the warm weather that has gripped South Texas throughout November and now December, many of us are still finding eggs and caterpillars in the leaves of our milkweed. BUTTERFLY FAQ: IS RELOCATING A MONARCH CHRYSALIS OK? YES Learn more about rearing Monarch butterfly caterpillars at the Monarch Watch website.. Those of us who raise caterpillars in our kitchens and gardens have been known to use pins, tape, glue, fishing line–and dental floss, my favorite–to fasten chrysalises to twigs, coffee stirrers, chopsticks, potted plants, even the kitchen cabinet.Skip to content
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