Helping Monarch Butterflies & Other Pollinators In The “Off” Season
<p>It’s been almost ten years since I collected milkweed seeds with students in our school’s certified Monarch Waystation.</p>
<p>Even after the garden clubs I led ended in 2017 and 2019, I continued to collect seeds of several varieties of Asclepias (milkweed) in my yard. These primarily consisted of rose milkweed, whorled milkweed, and common milkweed.</p>
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<p>Monarch caterpillar on Rose Milkweed. © Carol Labuzzetta, 2018.</p>
<p>In 2019, after I ended a brief, nine-month tenure at a land trust, I collected many different kinds of seeds with seventh and eighth-grade students on a piece of conserved property, the New Amsterdam Grasslands, near where I first lived when we moved to Wisconsin in 1999.</p>
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