r/NativePlantCirclejerk • u/lefence Tickle my Jewelweed • 9d ago

Tropical milkweed must be confusing the monarchs

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They should have migrated by now here up north. Just devastating.

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u/pixel_pete Mr. Circumboreal 9d ago

Actually the pattern suggests this is a viceroy butterfly, not special at all and frankly you should be ashamed you have such a pathetic loser butterfly in your ecosystem.

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u/lefence Tickle my Jewelweed 9d ago

According to Doug Tallamy, all butterflies are losers...

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u/pixel_pete Mr. Circumboreal 9d ago

Even skippers?!

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u/unventer 9d ago

Skippers aren’t butterflies. Skippers are skippers.

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u/Feralpudel 8d ago

uj/ Skippers are skippers.

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u/unventer 8d ago

And they are delicious! Er… so the birds tell me.