#commonmilkweed — Public Fediverse posts

Gardeners alarmed by dead bees on milkweed may be seeing the flowers’ hidden trap https://www.allforgardening.com/1847259/gardeners-alarmed-by-dead-bees-on-milkweed-may-be-seeing-the-flowers-hidden-trap/ #CommonMilkweed #DeadBees #garden #gardening #HoneyBees #MilkweedFlowers #MonarchButterflies #NativeBees #NativePlants #PhotoCredit #PhotosOfBees #pollinators #reddit

We have a lot of common milkweed in the garden because I like to support the myriad of insects who like it. A happy side effect is that it smells heavenly when it's flowering and the scent carries along on the breeze - so calming and good!

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Gardener reveals easy plastic jug trick that produced more than 500 native seedlings for pollinators https://www.allforgardening.com/1808255/gardener-reveals-easy-plastic-jug-trick-that-produced-more-than-500-native-seedlings-for-pollinators/ #CommonMilkweed #drea #garden #gardening #NativePlants #OrangeMilkweed #PlasticJugs #pollinators #seedlings

We’ve let our #CommonMilkweed go wild this year. We were starting to lose hope about seeing #monarchs but suddenly we now have 14 #caterpillars and have seen one adult today in #Indianapolis #Indiana.

So awesome to see them visit us!

#MonarchButterflies #Butterflies #Insects #Nature

More of my pollinator garden work in progress about the future of pollination for Manufactured Ecosystems.

I’m thinking about a variety of futures possible for pollination and pollinators. Planting native plants wherever you are can foster these species on whom we and our ecosystems depend.

#printmaking #wildflowers #sciart #pollination #commonMilkweed #echinecea #monarchButterfly #EasternSwallowtail #wildColumbine #CanadaColumbine #ecosystems #butterflies #nativeBee #MastoArt

new-to-me moth sightings today, on the common milkweed.
#naturalist #nature #commonmilkweed #nativeplants #moths #pollinators

☀️ Sunshine sparkles on the water
🐦‍⬛ Birding
🌱 Wildflowers

#ThreeGoodThings #wildflowers #CommonMilkweed #StarkBeauty #SolaceInNature #creationstruck

The #InserttAnInvert2024 prompt this week is eggs. The suggestion was to highlight how some species (mainly arachnids) take great care of eggs, carrying them around until they hatch, I thought I would talk about the opposite: the pitfalls of laying eggs & bailing, but worse of having a specific host for eggs like milkweed. Female monarchs lay a single eggs, usually on the underside of a young 🧵1

#printmaking #sciart #MastoArt #monarchButterfly #insects #commonMilkweed #ecology

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Some baby large milkweed bugs I took pictures of on September 16th 2020, in Pennsylvania! I was just going through my tumblr blog and looking for more old pictures I haven't put on iNaturalist yet :)

They came to the common milkweed in our yard there for the two(?) years since I noticed it and let it grow. I always loved watching them, I called them my babies :)

(Edit: BTW all my photos are public domain unless I specify otherwise, you are encouraged to save / share this wherever you want :) )

#bugs #insects #bugphotos #insectphotos #babybugs #largemilkweedbugs #milkweed #commonmilkweed #asclepiassyriaca #NonbinaryNaturalisttakespictures #wildlife #photography #Oncopeltusfasciatus #Oncopeltus