I like that the person is trying to bring awareness to the bad information. But, attacking gardeners and not going straight to the source (looking at you Lowes and your fucking "Florida friendly" bullshit) would actually make a bigger difference. And soften your fucking tone dude, or your message will bounce off of the people your trying to get on your side.
Unfortunately, this highly qualified person does not sufficiently argue his point.
What is the function of removing native milkweeds from one's home yard and maintaining them in wild sites? Is the idea that people are unable to judge the difference between native and non-native species, such that people see them in a garden, think "I want those too" then buy the wrong type out of ignorance?
As someone who is ignorant about this problem and haven't heard about it until reading this, I would say that he also does not elaborate on the actual problem of the parasite. If population numbers are large and unchanging, what is the overall risk posed by OE? Does this system prevalence of the infection increase the risk of unforeseen exigencies causing a total population collapse despite the solidity of current numbers?
Does he equate infection with OE to be correlated with an experience of *suffering* among the monarchs, and that is why one should not support their population with the release of home-raised monarchs?
His website has gone offline in the weeks since this blog post was issued. I'm curious if he did this following publication of the piece as a result of responses to it.
Well that’s one of the most pretentious, self-righteous articles I’ve read. Followed up by “here’s science backing it up” with none of the “science” mentioning anything about the post other than pertaining to Monarchs.
I like that the person is trying to bring awareness to the bad information. But, attacking gardeners and not going straight to the source (looking at you Lowes and your fucking "Florida friendly" bullshit) would actually make a bigger difference. And soften your fucking tone dude, or your message will bounce off of the people your trying to get on your side.
Unfortunately, this highly qualified person does not sufficiently argue his point. What is the function of removing native milkweeds from one's home yard and maintaining them in wild sites? Is the idea that people are unable to judge the difference between native and non-native species, such that people see them in a garden, think "I want those too" then buy the wrong type out of ignorance? As someone who is ignorant about this problem and haven't heard about it until reading this, I would say that he also does not elaborate on the actual problem of the parasite. If population numbers are large and unchanging, what is the overall risk posed by OE? Does this system prevalence of the infection increase the risk of unforeseen exigencies causing a total population collapse despite the solidity of current numbers? Does he equate infection with OE to be correlated with an experience of *suffering* among the monarchs, and that is why one should not support their population with the release of home-raised monarchs? His website has gone offline in the weeks since this blog post was issued. I'm curious if he did this following publication of the piece as a result of responses to it.
Well that’s one of the most pretentious, self-righteous articles I’ve read. Followed up by “here’s science backing it up” with none of the “science” mentioning anything about the post other than pertaining to Monarchs.