Re: [CH]Monarch Butterflies
Clyde Dodge (arnie708@hotmail.com)
Wed, 01 Mar 2000 23:26:57 PST
Hi Jach:
If you had looked it up you would have found that after the Monarchs
mate, they O N L Y eat the milkweed, and that is for the materials to make
their cocoons. Following this they die. They do NOT eat corn, but when
someone sees a dead Monarch clinging to a corn stalk, they can't believe the
corn had nothing to do with their death.
It's a good thing the Monarch didn't fall into the water supply. hahaha
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>> And I feel sorry for the Monarch Butterfly larvae that died after
>>eating the corn laced with BT but they probably died of STARVATION. We
>>raised Monarch Butterflies and all they eat here is milk weed. This is
>>essential to their survival because the larvae eat the bitter bitter
>>bitter
>>milkweed, Then very few things want to eat them and there are chemicals in
>>the milk weed that help them form their cocoons. Its quit a miracle to
>>watch
>>the process. But, even with all the corn we grow here I have never ever
>>seen
>>a Monarch eating corn. Be like putting me in a room with only Lima beans.
>>I'd starve. OPPS, I don't want to start a controversy about Lima beans.
>>The Chile Cheese Head,
>>Dan McWilliams
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