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I appreciate your offer. Your original comment said let them live in the wild connoting they were preventing them from being free. That would seem assumptive. The issue of whether non releasable animals and wider human contact through exposure events is ethical is a different discussion altogether.
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It's a Wildlife Rehab so it seems likely these are non-releasable opossums.
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Are you cutting all the way to the ground?
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That may be. But I grow close to 150+ milkweed stems of common, swamp, people and butterfly weed all totaled and all 4 species get larvae every year even with all the available choices. Common is supposed to be preferred but the leaves get rough as they get older while swamp stays fairly tender.
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Not exactly what you're after but very similar depaving efforts...
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Emergence
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Same thing here. I made dens out of coolers. They're used a lot. But the first 5-10 minutes after emergency is a cleaning ritual like cats.
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We have left just enough for the dog, paths, and pushing wheelbarrows... And even some of that might be endangered. 😉
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Common milkweed is great but the flowering period is a little shorter than for swamp milkweed. The bonus is they are extremely fragrant. The downside is they like to run. They spread underground and often a good distance. The upside is that the stems are easy enough to weed or mow.
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This was just a few weeks before I found out she had a litter of four kits. She successfully raised all four into adults. I put in a ball pit in the back garden for them to play in... a kiddie pool full of balls. They loved it.
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Please stay tuned for more posts sharing further details about her road to recovery thus far, and for updates to come! 🤍🩷🤍
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My boxes about 2X that height. 3 years and nothing yet though.
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My handful was planted 4-6 years ago and haven't really increased in number much. I have another small handful sent to me late in flowering season last year. I got them all in the ground and we'll see what becomes of them.
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How high is your box placement?
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I've never even SEEN a wheelbarrow load of snowdrops here. I have a small handful of plants but they're currently under ice!
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But we're pretty much an island. So, we do what we can to maximize in our garden and then do a little guerilla gardening by distributing monarch seeds on crappy forgotten city lots. 😉
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If we had them all grouped together we would get far fewer eggs laid in or garden space. So we spread them out in order to take advantage of their egg laying behavior. We're an urban garden and I'd love to say we're within a corridor of connected gardens...
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We can't grow tropicals here other than as annuals. The reason we spread them out throughout the garden is to get more caterpillars. Monarchs (and most butterflies) tend to lay an egg out two and fly off looking for another food plant.
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It's been 3 years and no signs of use by the target birds. I have seen kestrels fly directly over the boxes so I know they've been seen. I also have another screech owl box I'll be hanging shortly but much lower out in the back garden.
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I put up two combination boxes sized for American kestrels, screech owls, & Northern flickers (in that preferred order). But I hung mine very high under a roof eave so pretty much trying to select for kestrels. So far... Nothing. It's been 3 years as well.