Re:If You Plant Milkweed, They Will Come
by galangalalgol on Friday November 03, 2023 @08:28AM
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There is also a problem for manarch butterflies when people plant flowering plants they like, but in zones a bit colder than normal, and protect them from frost or replant. They bloom later than the butterflies expect, so they hang around too long on their migration and freeze.
The opposite can also be true such that some non-native plants can demonstrate overly desirable results compared to native plants. This is seen with many forms of squash/gourd/pumpkin in North America that results in wider and more aggressive distributions of herbivorous insects that favor those plant types over native plants.