{"id":3639,"date":"2019-09-20T00:11:50","date_gmt":"2019-09-20T04:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3639"},"modified":"2019-09-20T00:27:47","modified_gmt":"2019-09-20T04:27:47","slug":"sunnyside-beach-small-garden-teeming-with-monarch-butterflies-sept-17-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/?p=3639","title":{"rendered":"SUNNYSIDE BEACH…Small garden teeming with MONARCH BUTTERFLIES SEPT. 17, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES KNOW WHERE TO GO\u2026SUNNYSIDE  BEACH IN SEPTEMBER<\/div>\n

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\u201cWish you were with us  today.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAn invasion of Monarch  Butterflies at Sunnyside Beach\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy would they congregate there\u2026it\u2019s a barren  stretch of<\/div>\n
boardwalk and  water.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTrue but there is  one small Butterfly Garden between Sunnysdie<\/div>\n
Swimming  Pool and  the Palais  Royale\u2026.loaded with Monarch<\/div>\n
Butterfly right now\u2026.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTale a  break\u2026take a look\u2026lots of room to park.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cBeautiful board  walk\u2026lovely beach\u2026but looks devoid of life forms other than<\/div>\n
the two legged  kind.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cThen suddenly there in front of you is the Butterfly Garden\u2026lots of things<\/div>\n
fluttering.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cThis picture looks nondescript until you look clearly and see FOUR MONARCH BUTTERFLYS!!!”<\/div>\n

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\u201cMarjorie and some others collected seeds.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cIs that  legal?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCatch  me if you can.”<\/div>\n

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There are no milkweed  plants in the Sunnyside Beach  Garden.<\/div>\n

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\u201cBut fear not.”<\/div>\n

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“Meanwhile, 45 miles away from the Sunnyside Monarch Butterfly \u2018swarm\u2019, two young Monarch  caterpillars<\/div>\n
were chewing  merrily at our little milkweed garden.  Sometimes these  creatures are  hard to find Like<\/div>\n
this one chewing upside down from under a  milkweed leaf.  The best way I use to find them is.!!!”<\/div>\n

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\u201cIs what?”<\/div>\n
“Hold on, Alan, your next comment may be in bad taste, better warn any readers. \u201c<\/div>\n
\u201cgood  point.  If  you are sensitive please  do not read any farther.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe best way I find  to locate a Monarch  caterpillar is to look for its\u2019 excrement\u2026that is<\/div>\n
how I found the little fellow below\u2026excrement in little brown  marbles.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cCrude, Alan\u2026crude.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI Told you not to read  if you are sensitive.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cSee  if  you can find  the Monarch below\u2026bet you cannot.<\/div>\n

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\u201cTime to pick the crabapples\u2026right now\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSome say wait until the first frost.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat if  they fall to the ground?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cBest to get them now.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cAlan, crab apple jelly is a lot of work.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cI risked  my life picking the apples\u2026is that not enough.  High on<\/div>\n
a wooden ladder that had  seen better days\u2026while  below  me three<\/div>\n
old horse drawn mowers waited  for my flesh to land on their cutter bars.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAlan\u2026you over do comments far too often.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cTake a look \u2026 three rusted out mowing machines hungry for<\/div>\n
blood  as red as the crabapples.\u201d<\/div>\n

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\u201cEnough\u2026give me a hand cutting top and bottom, then cutting the little<\/div>\n
red apples in half<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat about the worms?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cKeep  that as  our little secret.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cNow boil them up\u2026get the sugar ready\u2026may or may not need  pectin.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDefinitely need bottles\u2026little ones are best.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhy?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cFriends  and enemies want to steal the finished  product\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWill hardly  miss a little bottle\u2026but a  big bottle of  crab apple jelly  if  <\/div>\n
stolen is a tragedy.”<\/div>\n

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\u201cI thought this story was  about Monarch Butterfly.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cDo  you not know the trick \u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cWhat trick?\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cAll writers have a main story and a secondary story going at he same time.\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cSome writers have a whole bunch of  stories going at the same time\u2026\u201d<\/div>\n
\u201cOnly two stories here\u2026less stress on your metal ability.\u201d<\/div>\n

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MONARCH BUTTERFLIES KNOW WHERE TO GO\u2026SUNNYSIDE  BEACH IN SEPTEMBER alan skeoch sept. 2019 \u201cWish you were with us  today.\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d \u201cAn invasion of Monarch  Butterflies at Sunnyside Beach\u201d \u201cWhy would they congregate there\u2026it\u2019s a barren  stretch of boardwalk and  water.\u201d \u201cTrue but there is  one small Butterfly Garden between Sunnysdie Swimming  Pool and  the Palais […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alanskeoch.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}