Attraction Repulsion
The Purple Milkweed grows on abandoned farmlands and other open areas including woodland borders, where these are found. Milkweeds are attractive to bees and butterflies, especially the monarch, yet its toxic sap makes the monarch caterpillar's flesh distasteful to most animals.
Asclepias cordifolia
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Bob Towery @ 06-24-2009
Elaine @ 06-24-2009
--Those caterpillars are pretty smart, aren't they?
(((By the way, Monarchs winter-over in my old hometown of Pacific Grove, California...They hang in thick masses on pine trees... it's quite a sight...
Donald Kinney @ 06-24-2009
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