When we first came to live in Canada one of the first things we had to contend with was that seasons do not morph one into another but seemed to change almost overnight … and that spring only lasts a fortnight with all the seasonal flowers apparently blooming together before that flips into a too hot summer, but that’s another story.
"What is the matter with people?". Indeed. I speculate we are speciating into two groups
H. Urbanis and everybody else. The former group finds it a bother to deal with anything other than client species so they sort things out by reaching for the pesticide.
Thanks for quoting me (even though you forgot the credit, LOL). To be clear regarding asters, 115 species of Lepidoptera use asters as a host plant in my part of Pennsylvania. Where you live in Canada, the numbers may be different.
"What is the matter with people?". Indeed. I speculate we are speciating into two groups
H. Urbanis and everybody else. The former group finds it a bother to deal with anything other than client species so they sort things out by reaching for the pesticide.
Thanks for quoting me (even though you forgot the credit, LOL). To be clear regarding asters, 115 species of Lepidoptera use asters as a host plant in my part of Pennsylvania. Where you live in Canada, the numbers may be different.
Mea culpa ... that's been fixed. Probably not a wildly different number to yours - certainly a number that is lots/many.
Yes, no doubt it is many. They are an important to the ecology in all of North America.