Dunno. A 2021 Google Map photo shows the area is still undeveloped, so there is probably still some narrow leaf milkweed there. The broadleaf milkweed may be all gone.
Super cool! Glad you filmed this! Saw your link on a butterfly website. I have a Monarch Waystation as others in my community do and we have seen some already this year...
In spite of all the current blooms, to be truly successful about 1/3 to 1/2 of that field should be other nectar rich flowers, ideally natives. Some kind of sunflower and Gregg's blue mist would provide nectar fairly rapidly, if they can be irrigated. Otherwise, plant the seeds this fall, and you WILL have monarchs next year. If you can't add them this year, go for native wild flower mix, between these rows, every other one or every third one. Ideally, something should be blooming year round to create a true sanctuary.
The narrow leafed milkweed flowers themselves are nectar magnets for monarchs when there are monarchs around like there were in July 2016: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hsOQDPJ9uM0.html
@@4af I don't see any butterflies of any kind in that field now that you mention it. Are there bees or flies present? I know a sanctuary needs significant volume of other flowers, even alfalfa and clover, to satisfy their needs.
@@josephsmith1816 play the video in high definition. You'll see a sulfur butterfly or two , a dragonfly or two and numerous honeybees. The milkweed seed farmer wouldn't bother to grow the milkweed if their was an insufficient supply of pollinators to assure seedpod production was good.
You need to add other native, nectar rich food sources for the monarchs. When I lived in central Texas, they would lay eggs on the milkweed, but feast on Gregg's blue mistflower, and Maximillian sunflowers, Mexican mint marigold and others. My friend's field was about half native milkweed. The other half was native wildflower mix. I don't think I can even begin to name everything, but the point was that something was blooming ALL the time. There were bluebonnets, sunflowers, standing cypress, Mexican hats, rain lilies, etc. The butterflies need nectar and a water supply. Monarchs can't really use this field until it starts blooming.
Thanks for your info! I like your channel and butterflies! What can I do in my garden to help save The Monarch Butterfly? I read article other day that butterfly on verge of becoming" endangered"
I would have never imagined that Monarchs are becoming extinct because I see them almost every day and sometimes at 2 or 3 different times a day! But I am in Louisiana.
Monarchs aren't becoming extinct. The size of the eastern USA monarch migration has been stable for 9 years and counting and the western USA migration has been stable for 17 years and counting.
Hello 4af, I live on the Central Coast of Ca (near Paso Robles) and some insect insect is boring holes into my almonds and eating the nut. Do you know which insect and how to stop the infestation?
Probably the caterpillar of a night flying moth. I'd show a photo or example of an infested inshell nut to someone knowledgable at one of your local Farm Supply Company Stores and maybe they could sell you an effective insecticide spray www.farmsupplycompany.com/locations/
Great lets just spray more endocrine disrupting herbicides into the neighborhoods where we live and pollute our rain water tanks and pollute everything including the air we breathe. I swear these people are trash who do this.
Hello, I am currently writing a book about Asclepias species native to North America. As part of this research project, I am attempting to grow as many species as possible to determine their growing requirements, to ascertain how they respond to a cultivated situation, and to create a seed bank. Can you share seeds of Asclepias californica with me? You can contact me at porterbrooknative@yahoo.com. Many thanks!
yep. The seed for that field was originally collected in the Colusa, Calif. area (central Sacramento Valley) and the seed for the other field that is in full bloom now was originally collected from the Mount Shasta area (Shasta Valley).
At the 1:50 mark you can see plenty of honeybees drinking the flower nectar from the milkweed flowers if you play the video at full screen and 1080p or 1440p.
