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plant’s DNA. They can however potentially impact anything that feeds on the plant, so this seems to be a ridiculous thing to do to a plant that you are hoping will be fed on by desirable native insects!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> MAIPC [mailto:maipc-bounces@lists.maipc.org]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kathryn Peterson-Lambert<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, June 18, 2017 12:14 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> maipc@lists.maipc.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [MAIPC] Fwd: harmful milkweed from Home Depot<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Milkweed - neonic- Nicotine based plants. I am concerned that this plant because although a native - it becomes invasive when it is treated in this manner? This plant is no longer a native because it is carrying a different DNA package
- am I correct in assessing it that way? We define native plants by their DNA package and their chemical composition don’t we? Or at least I do when I am studying the historical and medicinal uses of plants. The chemical changes the composition of the plant
and it becomes a different plant because of its new chemical composition? Any thoughts on this one? Thank you, Kathryn Peterson Lambert<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Subject: harmful milkweed from Home Depot</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">Date: </span>
</b><span style="font-family:"Helvetica",sans-serif">May 7, 2017 at 7:42:51 AM EDT</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Beware the killer milkweed sold in stores. Why must we always mess with mother nature? it is all about the money, like the man said. Pollinators goodbye.
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<a href="mailto:randiesue@gmail.com" title="randiesue@gmail.com">Randie Trestrail</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:whitesmoke"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif">Sent:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma",sans-serif"> Sunday, May 07, 2017 7:13 AM<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:nancynoeltalcott@verizon.net" title="nancynoeltalcott@verizon.net">
Noel and Nancy Talcott</a> ; <a href="mailto:priscop@verizon.net" title="priscop@verizon.net">
Philip E. Prisco</a> ; <a href="mailto:gwyn@jlab.org" title="gwyn@jlab.org">mailto:gwyn@jlab.org</a> ;
<a href="mailto:bartram2@verizon.net" title="bartram2@verizon.net">Carol Bartram</a> ;
<a href="mailto:hortondands@gmail.com" title="hortondands@gmail.com">Dana Horton</a> ;
<a href="mailto:mandy.canoodles@gmail.com" title="mandy.canoodles@gmail.com">mandy philbeck</a> ;
<a href="mailto:m.j.webb@verizon.net" title="m.j.webb@verizon.net">MJ Webb</a> ; <a href="mailto:stu@gardenatriums.com" title="stu@gardenatriums.com">
stu@gardenatriums.com</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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From: <b>Susan Yager</b> <<a href="mailto:soozigus@cox.net">soozigus@cox.net</a>><br>
Date: Fri, May 5, 2017 at 6:02 PM<br>
Subject: harmful milkweed from Home Depot<br>
To: Sooz Yager <<a href="mailto:soozigus@cox.net">soozigus@cox.net</a>><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">The email below was distributed to the members of the Virginia Native Plant Society local John Clayton Chapter. I would imagine the same situation may occur at any Home Depot across
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<u>monarch caterpillars</u> it may kill. Bees that take nectar from plants treated with neonics come to prefer the tainted flowers and seek out other neonic-treated flowers. It’s sort of like an addiction in that they keep going back for the poison, and then
of course they take the nectar and pollen to the hive, affecting the rest of the hive’s population. These neonics are really, really bad stuff. Please spread the word on Home Depot (and surely other places) to other pollinator gardeners.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b>Sent:</b> Friday, May 05, 2017 1:31 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Louise Menges<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Fwd: harmful milkweed plants being sold</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the identification information that the plant had been <span style="color:#E32400">
treated with systemic</span><span style="color:#B51A00"> </span><span style="color:#E32400">Neonicotinoids</span>. The container boasted how desirable the plant is for birds and butterflies. Yesterday I went to a different Home Depot and they had just put
out an entire rolling cart of these plants, maybe about 100, all poisoned. I contacted the store manager and told him that it is the same as giving poison candy to kids on Halloween. This is THE host plant for the Monarch. My club, Shady Oaks and our junior
club, Little Shadows have worked so hard to establish a Monarch Waystation and to educate people on the decline of the Monarch. I hate to think of the millions of poison Milkweed being distributed nationwide by Home Depot.</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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The container says distributed by Home Depot, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd N. W., Atlanta , Georgia.<br>
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I contacted the LSU Ag Agent for New Orleans, Dr Joe Willis. He said the Neonicotinoids will dilute as the plants grow but that only a very small amount will kill the larva of the Monarch. He is contacting the Master Gardeners of the area. I contacted the
newsletters of the Jefferson Parish Council of Garden Clubs and the Federated Council of New Orleans Garden Clubs to ask that they send a notice to our local members. I contacted a local GOA club and the president said she would inform her members. I contacted
our LGCF President and our Environmental School Chairman with the information. <br>
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We need a notice to Home Depot from a national source. I contacted the Monarch Watch organization ,<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws" target="_blank">www.MonarchWatch.org/ws</a> <<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws" target="_blank">http://www.MonarchWatch.org/ws</a>>
at the University of Kansas (1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045) . The Little Shadows Junior Garden Club registered our Monarch Waystation with them.
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<<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws" target="_blank">http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws</a>> Monarch Watch : Monarch Waystation Program<br>
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Monarch Watch is a cooperative network of students, teachers, volunteers and researchers dedicated to the study of the Monarch butterfly, Danaus plexippus and its ...<br>
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Sandy we need a response from NGC to this issue. It needs to be sent soon as these plants are being sold now to well meaning people who are wanting to help the Monarch not kill them. I know you are very busy but I hate to think of the billions of plants being
sold nationwide and how that will cancel the efforts of so many to stop the demise of the Monarch. Could you please help?<br>
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