minouette , to random
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This print is my response to seeing invasive dog-strangling vine (European swallowwort, Vincetoxicum rossicum) popping up all over my neighbourhood. Not only do these plants create dense stands that outcompete native plants but they threaten the monarch butterfly which depends on milkweed and are fooled by similarities between the two into mistakenly laying eggs on dog-strangling vine 🧵

A print on 11” x 14” paper with a gel plate print in green with swirling dog-strangling vine with leaves and pods along with a flying linocut monarch butterfly in tints of orange, white and black. The monarch looks surrounded and the intent is for the green and the vine to look threatening like it is being encircled. It’s titled “European swallowwort and monarch butterfly,” signed Ele Willoughby and dated 2024.
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    entsocamerica , to random
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    New on Entomology Today: Nursery-grown milkweed is in high demand amid consumer interest in monarch butterfly conservation. However, a variety of insecticides used to control aphids in nurseries can linger for weeks in milkweed plants at levels high enough to kill monarchs, a new study shows. https://entomologytoday.org/2024/07/09/insecticide-residues-milkweed-harm-monarch-butterflies/

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    @entsocamerica
    When I first successfully cultivated the common milkweeds in my flowerbed several years ago, there was a bad orange aphid infestation. Then one day, a bunch of lady beetles came and the balance was restored within days. 💪🐞🐞✨💚

    I don’t understand why people oft for pesticides, especially if they’re trying to help an insect species.

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