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Oh boy! This is going to be a long weekend. Sometimes when you stop and you think you might have a rock in your shoe. But you're in Texas. It might be a fire ant. Yeah, fire ant. Oh! Another one. Nope. This one didn't get me though. Yeah, when you stop for... lets just say to long. A fire and crawls in your sandal. Ouch! Oh boy. I got bit. I guess thats what they do; bit or stung. Not really familiar with fire ants. This one got me right bu the small toe on the top of the foot. Definitely not the most painful sting but not very pleasant either. I don't think I'll be stopping very frequently without looking down at my surroundings. Well, that's fire ants. Must be in Texas.
Hello and welcome to Grow Milkweed Plants episode 39! I'm your host Brad Grimm. Today we take you to the Rio Grande Valley. We visit the National Butterfly Center. We visit McAllan Nature Center and we visit Oleander Acres home of Oleander Butterfly Garden and Oleander Plant Nursery.
"Hi It's Oleander Seth from Oleander Nursery. Welcome to Grow Milkweed Plants."
"Hi It's Oleander Seth from Oleander Nursery. Welcome to Grow Milkweed Plants."
This morning I recently arrived at the McAllen Nature Center here in McAllen Texas. There was no admission. There was a sign-in sheet.
People visiting from all over the United States. I think on todays visit I may have come from the farthest. From Reno Nevada. Upon entering there was a great deal of diversity in plant life, obviously. Also the animals. In the parking lot there was four different birds; Northern Mockingbird, Great-tailed Grackle. Kingbirds, Inca Dove. There is butterflies all over the plants and grasses. I came in. I've got my camera with me. I'm trying to capture all of them in photographs. I'll have to ID most of them later from the photographs because the Texas flora and fauna is much different than what I have in Nevada.
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So if I learn the Nevada plants and animals things change a lot when you come down to Texas. There is a lot more... Wow this is interesting. I'm at this particular plant that has this really nice lavender color blooms. There was some type of skipper butterfly on it. So I stopped to take a photograph and in the background of the photograph there was movement. I refocused my vision. I saw there was a rabbit in the brush behind this plant that the skipper was nectaring on. So I tried to get some photos of the rabbit. And now what I see as I'm going back to the area where the skipper was I see a caterpillar.
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I don't know what that skippers caterpillar look like of it that skipper is just here for the nectar but there is a caterpillar that could very well be a larvae of that skipper. That's really neat. I'm just walking thru the McAllen Nature Center and um taking it all in. I'll recap this all in a little bit.
Woah! I just had a really cool experience. I walked up upon this plant that definitely is a vine. It is probably a milkvine. Either Cynanchum or Matelea. This vine had a big ole pod on it. The pod looks extremely similar to a milkweed. I'm looking at the pod. I'm looking at the leaves. i'm taking a few photographs. What do I see? A stick bug. I don't know what they are called. Waling sticke, talking sticks? This green stick bug which I just don't see those. I don't think we have them in Nevada. I let it crawl on my hand. I let it crawl on my face a little bit.
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Then I put it right back where I found it. Really cool experience. Walking away from there and I am with all these crescent butterflies. In Nevada we have Mylitia crescents. Out here they are very similar but i'm sure it's different. They are just everywhere out here. They are all over. (click) There is another photo. Really neat. This is kind of like a meadow area. There are some taller trees. A lot of variety of plants, not just a few. There are a lot of different kinds of plants and some of them are in bloom. Wow, that was really cool! I'm going to figure out what that bug was called and let you know.
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Okay, so, McAllen Nature Center could be the most amazing place I've been. Or maybe it's just the time of year. I don't know what the deal is. There is heavy cloud cover. There is this one area that I got to right now. There is this little bunny next to me right now. There is a butterfly that just landed on some type of an aster plant. It's hard to tell you all the stuff going on here so I'm going to slow down. There is climbing milkvine. I'm going to look this up. This is all new to me. This milkvine is going up and over trees. It is literally, lets see...10, 20, 30, 60...75 feet in the air on this tree. This milkvine. There are insects all over everything. There are milkweed tussock moths as far as caterpillar life on that particular plant.
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But on other plants there's like orange sulfurs, yellow sulfurs (some kind of sulfur). Then I come around - I get to the far side of wherever I'm walking. Zizotes milkweed! Zizotes, Herba de Zizotes is covered in bugs. There is a spider making it's little home in there. There is a milkweed tussock moths eating the plant. There are bees nectering on the plant. Incredible! It's in full bloom. It's got frass from the caterpillars on it. Super, super cool Texas native milkweed; Herba de Zizotes. It's one of the main reasons that I'm down here is to check out some of this stuff. Everything else is cool to. There was a bird; Plain Chachalaca that I saw. The Plain Chachalaca is a tropical bird. It's range basically stops in McAllen Texas. The south side of the United States. If you want to see the Plain Chachalaca you have to come here if you want to see it. That's if you want to see it in the United States. If you want to see it anywhere else you gotta go to Mexico, Central America to see it. I'm going to go. It's lunch time. Incredible. McAllen Nature Center there wasn't even admission. This place is a gem.
I traveled a short distance. I'm still in McAllen Texas (Correction: Mission Texas). I am at the National Butterfly Center now. The National Butterfly Center abbreviated NBC is basically a big butterfly park for kids and adults. There is a few things you can look at here. You can look at the Texas state bird which as we know is the mosquito. There are plenty of them here right now. This may not always be the case but they have had lots and lots of rain which may or may not be common, I don't know. They say it's not but I'm guessing the rain has created more mosquito breeding places. There are lot's of mosquitos out here. I should have spent the $4 on bug spray. I'm standing next to a planter that is 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 large tropical milkweed plants. These tropical milkweed plants are in bloom. There is hundreds of flowers between them. Here is a queen caterpillar. Alright, I've been walking around this plant and what I was going to bring up is that there is queen butterflies everywhere.
Not necessarily everywhere on these plants but everywhere in this part of Texas. The queen butterfly is a milkweed butterfly similar to the monarch butterfly. It's orange and black and white and has more white then the monarch. The top of the wing, when it opens it's wings and you are viewing it from the top, there is a nice dark orange. Halloween orange. It's a really pretty butterfly. Really iconic. Very similar to the monarch. Same family of butterflies. It's nectaring. The queen butterfly is nectaring on the milkweed plant right now. This is a male butterfly. So it will not be laying eggs. Only the female will lay eggs on the plant. What's interesting is that there are not tons of eggs being laid on these plants.
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Just over in another part of the garden there is abundant nectar sources there were hundreds and hundreds of queen butterflies. It's been noted by Donald Burtschi on a previous visit that about 99% of the queen butterflies in this area are male butterflies. That leaves one in one hundred to lay the eggs. It seems like a very unusual distribution of butterflies. There is still plenty of butterflies but there is a small population of egg laying females. I wonder why this is. I don't have the answer to that. There still seems to be some caterpillars on here. I do suppose that if there was an equal distribution of male and females that you could end up with a lot of egg laying. So maybe having a large number of females just isn't important to this butterfly. What if there were so many caterpillars that they started eating all their food supply? All the milkweed plants and host plants in this area got consumed. That would not be beneficial for the butterfly. As it is right now I have six plants in front of me and one fourth instar queen caterpillar.
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That caterpillar has got it pretty good. Very interesting. At the National Butterfly Center you are going to see a Texas Butterfly Garden. You're going to see a play area for the kids. You can take your photo with some artwork that is posted around the area, like butterfly wings. Nursery, plant nursery, greenhouse. They have a larger area in the back close to the Rio Grande River which is also the US Mexico border. That area is closed today. They are doing some plantings back there. It's a thirty acre that I'm walking around in right now. It's open till 5PM. It opens in the morning when the butterflies wake up and closes at 5PM. There is overcast skies right now. When I'm finding butterflies they are usually on a flower. They're resting. They're nectaring. There are butterflies flying when you get close to the plants because you disturb them as you approach them or when you are walking around in the grass they will jump up out of your way.
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They're not fluttering about. I don't look across this area and see lots of butterfly activity. There is bird activity. The Texas state bird. Besides the mosquitos most of the animals are pretty chillax because of the weather. Nice weather. It is mid 70's the plants are loving it. Great diversity in butterflies. There has been tons of butterflies. I don't know what they all are. I just tool a lot of photos everytime I see one and then I'll try to identify them later. Lot's of skippers. Fiery skipper I think one was called. The queens are everywhere and they are beautiful. I saw one monarch caterpillar. Not a monarch butterfly but a monarch caterpillar on giant milkweed that was in a park. Not here in the National Butterfly Center. So I did see one monarch caterpillar not the monarch butterflies. Hoping, unfortunately the weather is supposed to start raining, I'm hoping to see monarchs migrating thru here. But as of today I haven't.
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That being said I've seen more milkweed butterflies this weekend then I've seen all summer in Nevada. South Texas is definitely a hot spot for butterflies. Really cool. National Butterfly Center in Mission Texas, look it up. They are actually doing a butterfly trip to Mexico. They are going to be going down to where the monarchs are overwintering. I guess it's more of a guided tour. You can book that tour package. I see a second queen. This is a third instar queen caterpillar on the tropical milkweed plants that I'm standing near. They really blend in with those stems. The tropical milkweed stem has segments on it whee the leaves have fallen off as the plant grows. I'm going to keep moving. Always looking for monarchs but today is definitely the queens day. We'll give you an update in a bit.
Alright. today was a good day. Did some Nature Center stuff at McAllen Nature Center in McAllen Texas. That was good. If the weather is good tomorrow I might go back there tomorrow. There is also another place down the street about fifteen miles that is also recommended. I went to the National Butterfly Center which is basically, they are trying to create butterfly habitat for butterflies of the Rio Grande Valley. They have host plants for a variety of different butterflies. They have got nectar plants in bloom probably in all seasons the primary plant in bloom is Gregg's Mistflower. It's all over down here in Texas. For people looking for a plant as a fall nectar source it's a very popular flower, for good reason. It was covered in queens nectaring on this flower. It also smelled really good. I got down and took a big wiff of this flower and I'm sure it just lures those butterflies in because it smells awesome. Right now what I am doing is hanging out near the butterfly garden at Oleander Acres. This is the butterfly garden at Oleander Acres. This butterfly garden you can visit it. Most people would be here during the daytime. I'm actually here approaching nine O'clock at night. We have a gentleman who frequently comes here. He is going to be putting up a sheet and we are going to be doing what's known as mothing. If you hear me say the word mothing you might think, hey, this guy has never done this before. You would be correct. Officially I have never been mothing so I'm really just here to lear what this is about. These night flying butterflies don't necessarily creep me out. That spider. I think it was an Orb Weaver. It's a very large spider and it's raining right now. That Orb Weaver was somehow traveling about three feet above the ground in a distance of about fifteen feet right near the picnic table that I'm at. Well, I'm actually in the car right now because the state bird, the mosquito, is still flying. When they arrive I'll be out at that picnic table. They are going to put a sheet up. I'm guessing a white sheet. Then broadcast a light like a fluorescent light to it. That is said to attract the moths. I believe that is mothing and that pretty much sums it up. We will see how it goes. We're going to check out some of those night flying butterflies. I'm happy. I'm sitting in close proximity to some really cool plants that are monarch, queen and soldier host plants. They are not exactly milkweed because they are calotropis gigantea which is giant milkweed and caltropis procera queen flower. Those things are awesome. I can't grow them in nevada because in northern Nevada we have winter and I have to come to the tropics for plants like this. Tropical milkweed is very abundant down here as far as everybody growing it in their gardens. Tropical milkweed was the primary plant, as far as host plant, in the National Butterfly Center. Both the red and the silky gold was all over. I mentioned the butterfly was nectering on it and there was a bunch of queen butterfly caterpillars climbing on it. I'm sure when the monarchs come thru, probably more so in the spring, they will breed on it. Lay their eggs. Have their life-cycle. In the fall the monarchs are pretty smart butterflies. My guess is that the monarchs are going to go right thru here and nectar on the plants and carry on right down to Mexico. A lot of people would have you believe that planting tropical milkweed is going to cause the migration to "get confused". Having a tropical milkweed plant in a sub-tropical area is probably not enough to confuse a monarch. I think it's going to carry on and go right down to Mexico. Maybe we will ask some people here what happens. Now maybe if there is a gravid female and she is laying eggs she might oviposit on those plants, sure, and you know what? The weather might be nice and that caterpillar might become a butterfly and go to Mexico also. I don't know. Having a local population of monarchs and a migratory population I don't think the two cause one to not exist. It's not that type of universe. I think you can have a population that is isolated in one area and you can also have a migratory population. These are my opinions. I'm just sitting in a car in Texas. I don't have any facts. We're going to check out some moths. If I find anything cool I'll be posting those photos up. The show notes as always, you're going to find that at www.growmilkweedplants.com/podcast I believe we are getting to episode thirty-nine right now. You can go directly to the show notes for this episode at www.growmilkweedplants.com/39 I'm going to stop talking. Mothing is about to begin.
All right. So I have got to do a follow-up to that introduction I did on the topic of mothing. As we know moths are these night flying butterflies, basically. Mothing is a real thing. Actually I was mothing tonight for like three hours and it was pretty cool. It's a lot different then... It's like exploring nature at night is basicaly what I would describe it as. The weather was kind of a misty light rain. The moths did not come to the light as you might expect. If you put your porch light on the moths come to your light. They circle around until they die and then they fall. They did not do that because there was precipitation. Their wings get wet. They are not going to be flying a lot. We went to the moths. Basically walk around and before going over there I picked up a mini mag light and a headlamp. those things worked great. I had my camera. The cell phone camera is okay. The mega camera, Nikon D3300 actually worked pretty well. I was really surprised with it's night time performance with the flash. Actually get a nice crisp focus on most things. For the most part there are moths out there but there are also a ton of other insects. There was everything from wasps to cockroaches to queen butterflies that are roosting in the trees. There are multiple queen butterflies roosting. We didn't find any large clusters of them but they probably are out there. There are spiders. There was sticks bugs. I keep calling them stick bugs. I don't know what they are except they are bugs that look like sticks. There was two of those. They were really neat. We found a chrysalis. Either a monarch or a queen. Most likely a queen chrysalis. We did not see it during the daytime but at night it was visible. It was easy to spot. Where do I go from here? I'll drop a bunch of the stuff I photographed into iNaturalist.org and let other people enjoy it. Let other people in the naturalist community identify these things. Anyway thats the deal, mothing. It's like a sport. Go out there and try mothing. If you want to you can use a UV light, Ultraviolet light, to enhance your mothing abilities. That's all I got. Tomorrow, we're going to check the weather, we're going to take some measurements on some of these giant milkweed plants down here. Calotropis procera & Calotropis gigantea. That's the giant milkweed. We're going to get some measurements on these things. Generally speaking these plants are HUGE!
Hey Y'all welcome back. I'm still in Texas. This is day two here in Mission/McAllan Texas. Today I had a great cup of coffee at a local place called Jitterz Coffee Bar. Jitterz Coffee Bar has top reviews on Yelp! if you are curious. I went back to the library and also the Upper Valley Art League in the same parking lot. There is milkweed plants right there. Giant milkweed, Calotropis gigantea. Giant milkweed is mesmerizing. I cannot get enough of this plant. So I wend back and I photographed it some more. Also there was caterpillars of the queen butterfly on the silky gold tropical milkweed. Also on the Zizotes, not just the silky gold. The ones on the silky gold, there were six of them, on a plant with about six stems. In the period of the last twenty-four hours have devoured a lot of that plant. These are basically fourth but more likely fifth instar queen caterpillars and they are hungry. They have been devouring that plant. No suprise to see the queen there has been queen butterflies all over the Rio Grande Valley. They are really liking all of the different milkweeds. There is no milkweed or Calotropis plants that they are not eating. I went from the Upper Valley Art League over to another park where there is also a giant milkweed plant. In that park there is also Zizotes and tropical red milkweed and silky goad. There were caterpillars on all four types of milkweed there. Zizotes had easy to find caterpillars. Very abundant. It was in bloom. There was buds. There are no seed pods on any of them and I'm really confused by this. It's much different then Nevada where everything has gone to seed in the fall right before winter. Here in south Texas it's more like late summer or early spring weather down here. Maybe just because of the rain but I'm thinking that thru the summer the plants get a little bit of heat stress and their not producing the flowers in the heat of the summer. They might just have a different phenology down here which I would expect seeing as it's in a sub-tropical region. After that park I went over to near a trail that goes by one of the Hidalgo County irrigation canals and I've been walking up and down this trail which is where I am now. When you hear stories about clay like "Texas clay, growing in clay is difficult". I didn't really realize what that meant until I got here. And then it rained. And then I walked in it. Underneath my feet right now is clay. squish. sqhish. sqhish. A thick layer of clay under my feet. I've been shaking it off my shoes. Luckily I'm not wearing anything that is valuable. So much clay, like mud all over here. Anyway, the story is with the clay. When you look for ants, if you are looking for ants. They don't build their home in clay. Ants prefer the sandy soil. So there are areas of sandy soil and areas of clay out here. I happen to be in an area of clay. However, I did see some ants. It doesn't keep them from living out here. It's just not their preferred habitat. Specifically not for the ants that are collecting the leaf material like I saw in the McAllan Nature Center. Those ants prefer sand because the leaves get really wet in the clay is my understanding. Or it's hard to dig or something like that. Why am I out here? Well, I can't really answer that. I was just going on a hike but obviously I was looking for something. I'm looking for different milkweed vines or milkvines. I didn't really find any; not a big deal. Just out here enjoying the trail. What I did find was dragonflies, other butterflies, some very interesting birds. And when you look up in the sky it is not uncommon to see what appears to be migratory birds. I'm not exactly sure which direction they are traveling. I'm going to go ahead and guess South. They are flying in large numbers. There have been some very large groups of migratory birds. I'm talking those birds with the long wingspan. Sure hummingbirds migrate north and south; ruby-throated hummingbirds. The ones that I notice in abundance are these large birds. Maybe cranes? Some of them might be hawks. There actually was a mix of birds. I don't know if they're all migrating or if they're just traveling together. Wonderful bird watching out here. I stepped off the trail. I thought I was stepping off the trail. I was looking thru a clearing and I stumbled into an opening that has trees up to forty feet tall. There was, in the water, a turtle. We don't see a lot of turtles in northern Nevada. They have tortoises in southern Nevada. I'm guessing maybe a box turtle. I don't really know what turtles are down here. It went underwater before I could capture a photograph. Really neat to see. As that time after shooting a photo of a dragonfly I decided I don't know exactly where I am so I will head back to the paved portion of the trail. I also noticed there was a large stash of water bottles by this little pond. I'm going to say, given the proximity to the boarder, that may be a trail for coyotes. Taking people across the boarder. There is a very strong boarder patrol down here. Unless you come down here and see it for yourself you really don't know whats happening. I think just off this paved trail there might be an illegal immigration trail. I don't see much of a homeless population down here. Seems pretty wonderful but, again, I've only been here two days. I can't make that judgement call. Rough territory here for sure. COming thru these muddy trails. Right next to all these cactus and trees with thorns. You really don't want to be off the beaten path to far out here. Especially without water. I just found that interesting. I'm going back to measure the height of giant milkweed and get some measurements on this plant that I've been checking out most of the time down here. I'll give you an update on those measurements later on.
I did take the measurements of five Calotropis palnts. Calotropis procera and Caltrolis gigantea. Of the five plants the tallest plant was ten feet one inches. That same plant had a width of thirteen feet nine inches. The plant with the largest number of stems had twelve trunk stems that were branching within the first foot above ground level. Let's review all of them.
Calotropis procera #1
Trunk stems 1 Height 8' 5" Spread 4' 3" & 4' 3" Width 8' 6" Cord 2' above ground 7.5" |
Calotropis gigantea #2
Trunk stems 10 Height 10' 1" Spread 7' & 6' 9" Width 13' 9" Cord 2' above ground 7" |
Calotropis #3
Trunk stems 1 Height 5' 2" Spread 5' & 0's Width 5' Cord 2' above ground 2.5" |
Calotropis #4
Trunk stems 3 Height 7' 6" Spread 4' & 0' Width 4' all one direction Cord 2' above ground 3" |
Calotropis procera blanca #5
Trunk stems 12 Height 7' 9" Spread 5' 9" & 3' 7" Width 9' 4" Cord 2" above ground 5.5" |
Massive plants. The leaf size on these plants was the largest leaves of any milkweed I have ever seen. Larger than any common milkweed plant. Larger than any showy milkweed plant or any other milkweed species for that matter. Caltropis procera and Calotropis gigantea are comparable in size to one another and massive in size compared to other milkweed species. If you have been to Mission Texas recently I'm sure you have no-doubt see the Upper Valley Art League butterfly project. It is really hard to miss. You can view a map of the sculptures that the Upper Valley Art League has provided and there are at least eleven butterflies that are mapped throughout Mission Texas. That's not the only butterfly activity that's goin on. In fact, if you are in or nearby to Mission Texas on November 4th, 2018 you can attend the Third Annual Mariposa Monarca Migration Festival at Oleander Acres. There will be music, food, face painting, garden tours, plant sales, butterfly release, tagging and caterpillar adoption. This is on Sunday November 4th, 2018 from 1pm to 4pm in Mission Texas at Oleander Acres. There is going to be guest speakers. In addition to that I donated a Solitary Bee House that will be available to a lucky guest at the event who will win the Solitary Bee House as a door prize! I hope that if you are in nearby Mission Texas that you are able to attend the Mariposa Monarca Migration Festival at Oleander Acres. You can view the event on facebook.
All right, I did it. I became a part of Texas. I really got in the mood. I went out and got myself... Can you guess it? WHATABURGER! I went to Whataburger right here in Texas. I'll tell you what. It was pretty good. Whataburger for my expectations, it exceeded them. I can't get into it about alternatives to Whataburger. I'm not going to get into it right now for the sake of this podcast. Let's just say Whataburger, their fries and drink, it was all pretty good. I would recommend it. That being said I also saw a business call "Taburrito". Can you guess what that is? I had to read the sign. Let's just say you take a taco. You take a burrito. Combine them. You have Taburrito. Catch name, no, I didn't eat there. No idea if it's any good. What's going on down here in Texas? Coming up this weekend is the Texas Butterfly Festival in Mission Texas brought to you by the National Butterfly Center NABA's facility down here. They are having a three day event, maybe four day. They have got tours of various places. Face painting, bounce house. I don't know if that's true. A lot of people coming down from the Houston area. San Antonio maybe? Maybe you are coming down from Austin or from another state. Maybe you are already down here in the Rio Grande Valley and you are going to be visiting. It sounds like a great event. I recommend you go. I hope they have great weather. There were plenty of butterflies. I will say that I have been told that if the rain were to stop. It's currently not raining but it was raining as I was going to Whataburger. If you have better weather like the clouds clear and you have actual sunshine. You are going to have great butterflies down here. Late October, early November they really know how to plan the festival and if you are lucky those monarchs are going to be migrating right thru the butterfly festival. It's called the Texas Butterfly Festival and it's coming up in early November. The first weekend in November. If you hear this after that then you can just get yourself ready for the 2019 festival. That would be your best course of action. I just dropped all the trash from my headlight that I used last night for mothing. That was a great experience. Tons of night life out there. Texas Butterfly Festival. In addition to that I would like to say there are some things that may not be on the schedule for the butterfly festival. I had a nice visit, over the last two days, with Oleander Seth at Oleander Acres. He has a nursery and butterfly garden. If you are down here in the area. Right near the National Butterfly Center you can go to Oleander Acres and check out the butterfly garden there. Look for Oleander Acres of twitter, Facebook and they have a website. That's going to give you all the details you need to connect with Seth. You will get the star treatment. I should probably check with him but I'm going to say, just go right in and check out the butterfly garden during the day. There is a picnic table over there. A trash can. You can bring a lunch. There is a giant milkweed plant that is over ten feet tall. Can you believe that? I measured it today. Ten foot one inches tall. That's a milkweed plant! It has thirteen stems coming out of the ground. Thirteen different stems in the first foot from the ground and it is ten foot one inches. It's even wider than it is tall. This is a true butterfly garden and it's worth checking out. That's not the only milkweed plant that's there. But, a ten foot tall plus milkweed plant - that is something to behold. In addition to that we had seen a monarch caterpillar on the plant. When I returned today to measure the plant. Let's say last night when we were mothing we were unable to locate that caterpillar. When I came back to measure it that caterpillar was J-hanging. It was J-hanging out under the giant milkweed leaf; protected from the rain. It will be a chrysalis by this time tomorrow. It's all good in the hood as they say. I'm going to fold it up for the night and finish slurping down my Whataburger drink. Thank's for joining me. I'm going to connect with a gentleman on the next episode. I couldn't include it this time because his connectivity while he is traveling is hit or miss depending on where he is. I think he is beyond waypoint Charlie and he is heading toward waypoint Juliet which is quite a ways to go and he is traveling by bicycle; carrying milkweed seeds and wildflower seeds. We will catch up with Alex Wand on the next episode. If it's good fro the butterflies, it's good for me.
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"If it's good for the butterflies, it's good for me" -Brad G. |
Introduction: Oleander Seth
Host: Brad Grimm
Location: Rio Grand Valley, Mission Texas (Mostly Oleander Acres Butterfly Garden)
Intro Music: sunny - Bensound.com
Outro Music: acusticbreeze - Bensound.com
Host: Brad Grimm
Location: Rio Grand Valley, Mission Texas (Mostly Oleander Acres Butterfly Garden)
Intro Music: sunny - Bensound.com
Outro Music: acusticbreeze - Bensound.com