Around 1957 drug companies were purchasing milk weed and may pops by the pound. This was a common practice in the foothills of North Carolina. Kids would often times do this instead of picking cotton for extra money. This is not just folk medicine. This has been used for manufacturing drugs...
Some seeds also use this mechanism which is called “chilling hours”. Until a seed has accumulated a certain number of chilling hours, it won’t germinate. This keeps seed from germinating in the middle of winter. Each species of seed requires a different number of chilling hours and most ...
That white fluffy stuff is actually milkweed floss. It is the milkweed plant's way of spreading its seeds and the plant "goes to seed" each fall usually around October. The floss acts like a little airplane for the seeds of the milkweed plant. It is picked up by the breeze and blown...
The boxelder bug is a relatively harmless insect that’s named after its main food source — the box elder tree. They feed off of the female versions of these trees — which are the only ones that produce seed pods. They also occasionally feed off of the male box elder trees and maple...
When a kid is a few days old, they can be exposed to hay. Generally, baby goats will be ready to wean off the bottle or mom’s milk after 6 weeks of age. Once weaned, feed growing kids a high-quality diet formulated to help them grow. Kids can be separated from their mothers at...
life in Wisconsin. After we planted her she almost died. In fact, I thought she was already gone. After a replanting and a wish and a prayer, she pulled a Lazarus and managed to bud on her lower limbs. Now, a few years later, she is healthy and happy and growing like a weed. ...
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However, we did on occasion get to hold a sparkler. With Dad right there by our side. Evidently, they are still a favorite. This one is a Cleome called Sparkler. This plant is called Kobold Gayflea but to me, it looks like a sparkler or firecracker. ...
This paper argues that biodiversity should be understood as a normative concept constrained by a set of adequacy conditions that reflect scientific explications of diversity. That there is a normative aspect to biodiversity has long been recognized by en
I looked up these tall trees, I found that the balls are actually “firm ball-like groups of many hairy seeds.” That could explain why I didn’t find any Sycamore “nuts” on the ground around the trees. Presumably when they fall, they disintegrate into the vaguely milkweed-like seeds...