Huge MW patch!

[RozieMozie]

I took the kids to a new park today and the path on the way there goes right through a huge mw patch ... i've never seen anything like it (well i've only been at this since last yr, but its still impressive) ... i could have spent hours lookn through this patch! ... i wondered through quickly but didnt find any eggs or cats ... though i did have 3 butterfly sightings

[James Price]

Wow, very impressive patch, and nice pictures of it. We had just such a patch here in Milwaukee until last year -- 100 acres, in fact, covered with milkweed, alive with monarchs -- but it was bulldozed for a giant floodwater detention project. We still get by with the remnants along the edges of it, but it will never be the same. You should check with local zoning officials to see whether your patch is designated as parkland or is in any other way conserved. I hope you never have to go through the pain we did when we learned our great monarch meadow was going under.

[John Beaulieu]

That is nice milkweed! It looks somewhat familiar... It's not out in Scarborough near the Rouge River is it?

My best milkweed patch fell victim to a bulldozer last year.

There are still enough areas around home to harvest food for the caterpillars. Growing milkweed from seed is such a slow process, we will mot have large enough plants to use as feed for years!

John

[Waystation #635]

Wow....now that is a Monarch's Field of Dreams. What I would do to find a patch half that size here in New Mexico.