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August 7, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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So does anyone have any idea where I should put these little cuties? Right now they're in a clay flower pot in mixed sun and shade. I want to give them a fighting chance. Any suggestions on the best place to put them? END🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
August 3, 2025 at 4:05 PM
So does anyone have any idea where I should put these little cuties? Right now they're in a clay flower pot in mixed sun and shade. I want to give them a fighting chance. Any suggestions on the best place to put them? END🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
Did I mention that common milkweed is fussy as hell when I try and grow it in one area? But does great just popping up everywhere you don't want it to? I suspect these caterpillars were growing on some milkweeds that I threw in the trash. 7x🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
August 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Did I mention that common milkweed is fussy as hell when I try and grow it in one area? But does great just popping up everywhere you don't want it to? I suspect these caterpillars were growing on some milkweeds that I threw in the trash. 7x🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
So guess where I ended up finding some monarch butterfly chrysalises? In a yard clippings trash bag🧵
6x #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
6x #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
August 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
So guess where I ended up finding some monarch butterfly chrysalises? In a yard clippings trash bag🧵
6x #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
6x #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
Mitigation efforts: neem oil spray, manual aphid removal, animal repellent... All of these can be potentially damaging to monarch butterfly eggs. I haven't seen any caterpillars this whole season. 5x 🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
August 3, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Mitigation efforts: neem oil spray, manual aphid removal, animal repellent... All of these can be potentially damaging to monarch butterfly eggs. I haven't seen any caterpillars this whole season. 5x 🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
I got rabbit browsing, deer browsing, oleander aphids, animal trampling, white chalky stuff, black sooty sticky mold. Yellow leaves. Cicada shells, earwigs. Big chew marks. And weak sickly plants from transplant shock. 4x 🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
August 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
I got rabbit browsing, deer browsing, oleander aphids, animal trampling, white chalky stuff, black sooty sticky mold. Yellow leaves. Cicada shells, earwigs. Big chew marks. And weak sickly plants from transplant shock. 4x 🧵 #commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
If you're lucky... You will get monarch caterpillars, red milkweed beetles and or red milkweed seed bugs. 3x🧵 #monarchbutterflies #commonmilkweed
August 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If you're lucky... You will get monarch caterpillars, red milkweed beetles and or red milkweed seed bugs. 3x🧵 #monarchbutterflies #commonmilkweed
Not a complaint. But I have found that common milkweed is the capybara of East Coast Mid-Atlantic native plants. In some ways. And for a common "weed" it can be very delicate and finicky. 2x🧵 #monarchbutterflies #commonmilkweed
August 3, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Not a complaint. But I have found that common milkweed is the capybara of East Coast Mid-Atlantic native plants. In some ways. And for a common "weed" it can be very delicate and finicky. 2x🧵 #monarchbutterflies #commonmilkweed
So I made the effort to a plant a patch of common milkweed in the sun in the sandy loam in my Mid-Atlantic backyard. You know, to attract butterflies and get monarch caterpillars.🧵 1x #MonarchButterflies #CommonMilkweed
August 3, 2025 at 3:27 PM
So I made the effort to a plant a patch of common milkweed in the sun in the sandy loam in my Mid-Atlantic backyard. You know, to attract butterflies and get monarch caterpillars.🧵 1x #MonarchButterflies #CommonMilkweed
#monarch on potted #commonmilkweed plant on patio 🙌
July 29, 2025 at 12:06 PM
#monarch on potted #commonmilkweed plant on patio 🙌
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July 21, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Every year my common milkweed thrives - but it won’t attract any monarchs 🤔😔 Any suggestions on what I can do to help monarchs find this plant for their larvae?🐛🐛
🤞 I added some blazing meadow star and a young echinacea plant - that won’t bloom until next year.
#commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
🤞 I added some blazing meadow star and a young echinacea plant - that won’t bloom until next year.
#commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
July 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Every year my common milkweed thrives - but it won’t attract any monarchs 🤔😔 Any suggestions on what I can do to help monarchs find this plant for their larvae?🐛🐛
🤞 I added some blazing meadow star and a young echinacea plant - that won’t bloom until next year.
#commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
🤞 I added some blazing meadow star and a young echinacea plant - that won’t bloom until next year.
#commonmilkweed #monarchbutterflies
Got some itty, bitty, very hungry caterpillars munching on my milkweed!
#monarchbutterfly #monarchcaterpillar #balconygardening #commonmilkweed #Danausplexippus #nativeplants
#monarchbutterfly #monarchcaterpillar #balconygardening #commonmilkweed #Danausplexippus #nativeplants
July 12, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Got some itty, bitty, very hungry caterpillars munching on my milkweed!
#monarchbutterfly #monarchcaterpillar #balconygardening #commonmilkweed #Danausplexippus #nativeplants
#monarchbutterfly #monarchcaterpillar #balconygardening #commonmilkweed #Danausplexippus #nativeplants
I keep looking under the leaves of the Common Milkweed for Monarch eggs. Nothing today but a Lady Beetle larva and an insect egg of some sort but I'm 95% sure it isn't a Monarch egg. Any idea what it might belong to?
#commonmilkweed
#commonmilkweed
July 8, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I keep looking under the leaves of the Common Milkweed for Monarch eggs. Nothing today but a Lady Beetle larva and an insect egg of some sort but I'm 95% sure it isn't a Monarch egg. Any idea what it might belong to?
#commonmilkweed
#commonmilkweed
weeds can be lovely too (common milkweed, asclepias syriaca)
may '25
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🎞: kodak gold 200
#milkweed #commonmilkweed #plants #weeds #35mm #filmphotography #shotonfilm #analogphotography #photography #canonphotography #kodak
may '25
📷: canon rebel xs
🎞: kodak gold 200
#milkweed #commonmilkweed #plants #weeds #35mm #filmphotography #shotonfilm #analogphotography #photography #canonphotography #kodak
July 6, 2025 at 2:45 AM
weeds can be lovely too (common milkweed, asclepias syriaca)
may '25
📷: canon rebel xs
🎞: kodak gold 200
#milkweed #commonmilkweed #plants #weeds #35mm #filmphotography #shotonfilm #analogphotography #photography #canonphotography #kodak
may '25
📷: canon rebel xs
🎞: kodak gold 200
#milkweed #commonmilkweed #plants #weeds #35mm #filmphotography #shotonfilm #analogphotography #photography #canonphotography #kodak
100% Agree. Been trying to grow a patch of #CommonMilkWeed in a sunny dry meadow part of my yard. I spend more time dealing with aphids, soot mold, fauna eating the plants, modest blooms and ZERO monarch caterpillars. Meanwhile the lone wolves growing randomly in the shade are thriving.
June 20, 2025 at 1:42 AM
100% Agree. Been trying to grow a patch of #CommonMilkWeed in a sunny dry meadow part of my yard. I spend more time dealing with aphids, soot mold, fauna eating the plants, modest blooms and ZERO monarch caterpillars. Meanwhile the lone wolves growing randomly in the shade are thriving.
June 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
First Monarch egg of the season
Morris County, NJ
5-12-25
#Monarch #Butterfly #ButterflyGarden #CommonMilkweed
Morris County, NJ
5-12-25
#Monarch #Butterfly #ButterflyGarden #CommonMilkweed
May 12, 2025 at 4:50 PM
First Monarch egg of the season
Morris County, NJ
5-12-25
#Monarch #Butterfly #ButterflyGarden #CommonMilkweed
Morris County, NJ
5-12-25
#Monarch #Butterfly #ButterflyGarden #CommonMilkweed
#Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed, is a food source for many flies, beetles, ants, bees, wasps, and butterflies (including Monarchs!).
#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower
#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower
November 15, 2024 at 4:30 AM
#Asclepias syriaca, Common Milkweed, is a food source for many flies, beetles, ants, bees, wasps, and butterflies (including Monarchs!).
#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower
#CommonMilkweed #Milkweed #Apocynaceae #Asclepiadoideae #flower
Just a teeny bit of wilflife in my garden.
July 12, 2024 at 11:28 PM
Just a teeny bit of wilflife in my garden.
What is the flower you smelled most recently? #CommonMilkweed
July 1, 2024 at 6:39 PM
What is the flower you smelled most recently? #CommonMilkweed