Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My first Monarch!, 1 by debnes_dfw_tx

debnes_dfw_tx wrote:
Aww Becky freedom!!
The most important thing to any living creature....:)
Hey Sharona!
Well, we went to the Flutterby thing in grapevine TX today..it was pretty cool. There were lots of activities, and they handed out Monarchs in Envelopes for people to release on thier countdown from 5.
There were a few hundred at 12 noon released and they said 600 Monarchs at 1pm...
When they released them the crosswind caught them and you couldn't see them much at all. They had about 100 or so in a netted cage there to relase at 1:00 too along with another 500. My son was so tired we needed to go..go figure. They were selling some BFs in little cases all preserved, Ben liked the Buckeye, and Jackie got a BST. (I hate to see them all pinned up in a case like that, they tried to assure me that they died from unpreventable causes or naturally. Though you never can be sure.)

How thick is the path of the Monarch Migration as it goes through Florida, I wonder? The path here has been really wide. especially this year!!

You asked me to bring ya pictures Sharona! o/~
Really beautiful Lady Margaret PV..Maybe LM is a red one that GF CAN eat? I want to know more about that one! I will trade you some Blue Crown if it is safe to use as a host plant.

See ya all!