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gaiadiversity

(60 posts)
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 12:15 AM Jul 2018

Monarch caterpillars

Sadly, DU still will not create a forum for ecology/wildlife, only birding. All major news sites ignore ecology. If one cares about the environmental impact of the current administration or if you just love wildlife then you would see the need for such a forum.

Either way, I'll post this here: Two monarch butterfly caterpillars eating milkweed in my pollinator garden:

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Monarch caterpillars (Original Post) gaiadiversity Jul 2018 OP
Wonderful! I also grow milkweed and have Monarchs. Sophia4 Jul 2018 #1
Milkweed... gaiadiversity Jul 2018 #6
That is a beautifu photo! Thank you for helping these magnificent creatures. LonePirate Jul 2018 #2
I would've liked to see that forum. Liberty Belle Jul 2018 #3
Awesome! They are so beautiful! Silver Gaia Jul 2018 #4
Um ... we do have an Environment/Energy Group. eppur_se_muova Jul 2018 #5
Ecology/biology forum needed gaiadiversity Jul 2018 #7
 

gaiadiversity

(60 posts)
6. Milkweed...
Sun Jul 15, 2018, 11:22 PM
Jul 2018

If I had known I would have planted only milkweed. Between yesterday and to day seven butterflies emerged from chrysalis's, 5 females and two males.

LonePirate

(13,844 posts)
2. That is a beautifu photo! Thank you for helping these magnificent creatures.
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 12:32 AM
Jul 2018

Hopefully you will see many more besides those two.

Liberty Belle

(9,604 posts)
3. I would've liked to see that forum.
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 01:30 AM
Jul 2018

I cover a lot of wildlife issues, and agree that more education on such things as important, along with teaching everyone how to create backyard habitats to help our struggling wildlife and protect our pollinators.

eppur_se_muova

(37,325 posts)
5. Um ... we do have an Environment/Energy Group.
Wed Jul 4, 2018, 11:00 AM
Jul 2018

It's kind of hard to disentangle environmental concerns from discussions of the biggest sources of pollution, or so the thinking apparently goes, so they are combined in one Group.

Many ecology-related posts go to E/E.

 

gaiadiversity

(60 posts)
7. Ecology/biology forum needed
Sun Jul 15, 2018, 11:27 PM
Jul 2018

I've advocated for a forum dedicated to ecology, but never heard a word back. This, in my opinion, is astonishing given the subject matter and the limited choices for posts related to ecology, biology, biodiversity and conservation. Being a newby, no one cares about my opinion.

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