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by Blck-shouldered Kite on Wed Jan 06, 2016 5:44 am
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There's been considerable confusion regarding finding Milkweed seed (Asclepias spp.) native to each of your regions or zones.   You may confidently rely on the non-profit Xcerces Society as the benchmark reference for ALL butterfly LARVAE  and their HOST plants, and for all information related to reclaiming nature for your home. (including Doug Tallamy's book below).   The key to success is re-establishing NATIVE plants and the plants that HOST the LARVAE of the butterfly species that are native to your area.

Here is Xcerces's easy-reference to MILKWEED SEED

And "Mike in O", the Xerces Society's home base is in your Great State of Oregon !

We cannot bring back our native Bees and Butterflies without the NATIVE herbaceous plants (the native PRIMARY PRODUCERS).  They are the very foundation, because these species co-evolved together over perhaps millions of years.  And if we can bring back the BASE,  the terrestrial food web will naturally build, predictably ........... including our native song birds (and of course minus the large mammals and snakes, depending on where you live; i.e. high human pop densities, with their fences, etc. have permanently excluded some species).  So a lot of it will depend on isolation; i.e. if you own or manage a very isolated pocket of nature, we may need to bring in some native stock of a particular species to re-establish it.  It'll be a wait and see thing.    

Restoring the base of NATIVE PRIMARY PRODUCERS (PP) while excluding any poison whatsoever, IS THE KEY....to Bringing Nature to our Homes again.  It is that group of PP's  (thru photosynthesis) that manufacture ALL of the energy available to your food web.

and 2 books:

And here is The Xerces Society Guide to Attracting Native Pollinators, Protecting North America's Bees and Butterflies.

along with Doug Tallamy's Bringing Nature Home

These two outstanding references are for anyone who wants to re-establish or maintain a solid base to their piece of nature.  I have bought both books, do NOT refer to them enough but have been referring to them during the process of converting my lawn to natives.  THIS IS OUR STUDIO.   Let's take the nation with this.  

We can be on the leading edge of this movement or follow it "down the road"; either way, it is not going to stop !

XCERCES WHO.?..their origin

Xerces blue - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

http://www.xerces.org

Robert King :)
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by Mike in O on Fri Jan 08, 2016 1:35 pm
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You may find this interesting Robert about tagging Pacific monarchs
https://www.facebook.com/MonarchButterf ... Northwest/
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by pleverington on Fri Jan 08, 2016 6:43 pm
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For Ohio--the Ohio Prairie Nursery sells ohio native seeds including milkweed.
Paul Leverington
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