By
C.J. Hirschfield
Around
this time last year, it felt like Fairyland was running a drug operation.
Dozens of people would come to our door and say that Jackie sent them; they
were here to pick up the plants.
The plants weren’t marijuana, they were
milkweed – the food that monarch caterpillars need to undergo their dramatic
transformation into butterflies.
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| Success! |
Our
scores of volunteers helped us find and treat monarch eggs and milkweed to
prevent against disease, fostered the caterpillars at home (1,200 last year),
and then released them near our park.
Well,
it’s that time again, and Fairyland horticulturist Jackie Salas is sending out
the word: Lake Merritt monarchs need your help! Do you have what it takes?
