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		<title>Scene in Hawaii:  Monarch Butterfly Caterpiller in a Supermarket Garden Shop</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Aug 2009 17:14:58 +0000</pubDate>
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NOTE:  DoT has been posting from Honolulu since late July when she left California to help her mother through some medical procedures.  She will be doing so until she can return to Orange County.
DoT&#8217;s Thot:  “Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Asclepsis and Lantana:  Food for Monarch Butterflies</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot:  I was thinking of and feeding the Monarch babies, then I realized I should think of the Monarch Butterflies and what they need for food as well.
Asclepsis Provides Milkweed for Monarch Butterfly Caterpillers
I first focused on the asclepsis mikl plant that I needed to feed the Monarch Butterfly caterpillers that would grow [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Haiku:  Camera Madness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:06:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot: &#8220;Butterflies are self propelled flowers.&#8221;  &#8211; R.H. Heinlein
 
 

 
 
The Monarch Butterfly Eluded Me, Charmed the Hubby

A few days ago, while I was out in the yard, tending to plants and flowers, I caught a vague glimpse of my hubby moving rather fast for the brand-new medicare guy that he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Sightings Haiku &#8212; the Asclepsis Gardener&#8217;s Reward</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 16:37:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[DoT&#8217;s Thot:
 
 
 
 
Monarch Butterfly Effect
Busily canning tomatoes today, I looked out the window over my kitchen sink and there it was &#8212; flitting around my butterfly bush plant. I felt a little less tired; and instead, happy that the orange-gold, black and white &#8220;flutter-by&#8221; distracted me from work.  
Hope to post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missed the Monarch Butterfly Chrysalis &#8212; Found It Empty</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot: &#8220;Just when the caterpillar thought the world was
over, it turned into a butterfly.&#8221; &#8211;Unknown
 
Dot&#8217;s Jot:
Quick Note &#8212; I had looked and looked for the chrysalis and could not find any.  Then in mid-June I saw this one empty chrysalis &#8212; not that seafoam/turquoise gold-speckled chrysalis, but the empty pale tan husk that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle Site Review &#8212; go visit</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/05/27/monarch-butterfly-life-cycle-site-go-visit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 13:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot: When you see something great, emulate.  Oh, and by the way, acknowledge.
Since first just doing my own little observations, I decided to learn more about my Monarch butterflies.  In Hawaii, the butterflies had become rather captive on the islands and since the rhythm of the seasons is so gentle, the thought of migration [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Note on Monarch Butterflies in Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 May 2009 18:01:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8221;s Thot:  &#8220;After all, Hawaii is the best land. (O Hawaii no ka aina maikai) &#8212; Hawaiian Proverb [For more quotations see dailycelebrations ]
This is a memory, not a scientific note.  I was happy to find the asclepsis I now grow in Orange County, California, because I could attract and then raise monarch butterflies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Egg Hunt &#8212; First Report</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/05/15/monarch-butterfly-egg-first-report/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 19:37:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dot</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thot: &#8220;People deal too much with the negative, with what is wrong.  Why not try and see positive things, to just touch those things and make them bloom?&#8221; &#8212; Thich Nat Hanh

As best as I can tell, my butterfly plants are of the variety &#8212; Asclepsis curassavica Wildfire.  I am no expert and just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monarch Butterfly Egg Hunt is On</title>
		<link>http://dotsthots.com/2009/05/15/monarch-butterfly-egg-hunt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 07:07:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dot&#8217;s Thots:    &#8220;The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.&#8221; &#8211;
Rabindranath Tagore
I have looked unsuccessfully for Monarch butterfly eggs in the past and doing it again.  I do have very bad eyes, but suspect it was my timing..  Here is a picture from the Wikimedia site that actually shows a butterly laying [...]]]></description>
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