Today’s lessons involve monarch butterflies, mosquito eradication and (bleah) stink bugs.
Monarch butterflies are fussy eaters that dine only on milkweed, so to boost the graceful pollinator’s dwindling numbers, woke SoCal gardeners have been busy sowing milkweed plants in their yards. All well and good, except now there’s news that some milkweeds are more hindrance than help, according to Ron Vanderhoff, general manager of Roger’s Gardens nursery in Corona del Mar and a board member of the Orange County chapter of the California Native Plant Society.
, “a relatively showy plant reaching about 3 feet in height, with pale pink to cream-colored flowers.” Unlike the tropical variety, the native plants die down to the ground in the winter, so overwintering critters aren’t an issue, Vanderhoff says. These mini-donut-sized Mosquito Dunks contain BTI, a bacterium that's lethal to mosquito larvae, black flies and fungus gnats for up to 30 days, but won't harm plants or animals . Use them in ponds, bird baths or even bromeliads to keep mosquitos from breeding.Our wet spring was a boon to our garden plants but it also created a lot of watery nooks for mosquitoes to breed.
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