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Message: [QUOTE="Bigboote, post: 3057019, member: 7631"] I'm not sure for how long. :cry: We were members of a CSA (community-supported agriculture) farm some time ago. The farmer pointed out a field of milkweed and showed us what to look for to find monarch eggs. We found quite a few and raised them to adulthood. Did this for a couple of years and planted milkweed in our back yard. (We're not very popular among our neighbors in suburbia.) We've had a good milkweed crop for probably 10-12 years. Nary a monarch caterpillar or egg till last summer. Plus one of the trails I run along has a lot of milkweed, and I haven't seen a caterpillar among those plants for a decade. I'm really sad about that, as I think they're such amazing animals. The habitat in Monterrey where they overwinter is rapidly vanishing. The drought in Texas a few years ago killed somewhere between 10 and 30 per cent of the migrating population in one year. I could go on and on about the things that are devastating them (actually, I guess I have). . . [/QUOTE]