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Topic: Sullivant'S Milkweed

Plant Milkweed for the Orioles?!?

Posted Vonda on May 17, 2022

Everyone knows that planting milkweed is good for the Monarch butterfly. But did you know that milkweed is beneficial in other ways? In addition to feeding monarch caterpillars and to being a great plant for pollinators, milkweed fibers are particularly suited to being used in the construction of oriole nests.

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