<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">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<br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"MJ Webb" <<a href="mailto:m.j.webb@verizon.net" class="">m.j.webb@verizon.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">harmful milkweed from Home Depot</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">May 7, 2017 at 7:42:51 AM EDT<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><<a href="mailto:m.j.webb@verizon.net" class="">m.j.webb@verizon.net</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class="">
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<div class="">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. </div>
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<div style="font-color: black" class=""><b class="">From:</b> <a title="randiesue@gmail.com" href="mailto:randiesue@gmail.com" class="">Randie Trestrail</a> </div>
<div class=""><b class="">Sent:</b> Sunday, May 07, 2017 7:13 AM</div>
<div class=""><b class="">To:</b> <a title="nancynoeltalcott@verizon.net" href="mailto:nancynoeltalcott@verizon.net" class="">Noel and Nancy Talcott</a> ; <a title="priscop@verizon.net" href="mailto:priscop@verizon.net" class="">Philip E. Prisco</a>
; <a title="gwyn@jlab.org" href="mailto:gwyn@jlab.org" class="">mailto:gwyn@jlab.org</a> ;
<a title="bartram2@verizon.net" href="mailto:bartram2@verizon.net" class="">Carol
Bartram</a> ; <a title="hortondands@gmail.com" href="mailto:hortondands@gmail.com" class="">Dana Horton</a> ; <a title="mandy.canoodles@gmail.com" href="mailto:mandy.canoodles@gmail.com" class="">mandy
philbeck</a> ; <a title="m.j.webb@verizon.net" href="mailto:m.j.webb@verizon.net" class="">MJ Webb</a> ; <a title="stu@gardenatriums.com" href="mailto:stu@gardenatriums.com" class="">stu@gardenatriums.com</a> </div>
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to plant and Bee people, please see below.</div>
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<div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br class="">From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Susan Yager</b> <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:soozigus@cox.net" class="">soozigus@cox.net</a>></span><br class="">Date: Fri, May
5, 2017 at 6:02 PM<br class="">Subject: harmful milkweed from Home Depot<br class="">To: Sooz
Yager <<a href="mailto:soozigus@cox.net" class="">soozigus@cox.net</a>><br class=""><br class=""><br class="">
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<div class="m_4459668094110325542WordSection1"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class="">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 the country.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class="">There’s more to the
neonic problem than the <u class="">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.<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class="">Susie<u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span> </div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; COLOR: #1f497d" class=""><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></span> </div>
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PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b> Louise Menges<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b> Fwd: harmful milkweed plants
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Kossodo received this email written by a concerned gardener in Louisiana and
asked me to pass it on--</span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div></div>
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a Milkweed plant from Home Depot near my home and it wasn't until I got home
that I noticed the little information stick hidden behind the identification
information that the plant had been </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #e32400" class="">treated with systemic</span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #b51a00" class=""> </span><span style="FONT-SIZE: 13.5pt; COLOR: #e32400" class="">Neonicotinoids</span><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class="">. 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.<br class=""><br class=""></span><u class=""></u><u class=""></u></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 12pt"><span style="font-size: 13.5pt;" class=""><br class="">The container says distributed
by Home Depot, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd N. W., Atlanta , Georgia.<br class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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" class="">www.MonarchWatch.org/ws</a> <<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws" target="_blank" class="">http://www.MonarchWatch.org/<wbr class="">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. <br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws" target="_blank" class="">http://www.monarchwatch.org/<wbr class="">ws</a>> Monarch Watch :
Monarch Waystation Program<br class=""><br class=""><a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/" target="_blank" class="">www.monarchwatch.org</a> <<a href="http://www.monarchwatch.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.monarchwatch.org</a>> <br class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">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 class=""><br class="">Mary Ellen Miller<br class=""><br class="">Shady Oaks Garden
Club , LGCF District II<br class=""><br class="">Moderator Little Shadows Junior Garden
Club<br class=""><br class="">Immediate Past President Federated Council of New Orleans Garden
Clubs Inc.<br class=""><br class=""><a href="mailto:memiller306@yahoo.com" target="_blank" class="">memiller306@yahoo.com</a> <<a href="mailto:memiller306@yahoo.com" target="_blank" class="">mailto:memiller306@yahoo.com</a>> <br class=""><br class=""><a href="tel:(504)%20723-7796" target="_blank" value="+15047237796" class="">(504)723-7796</a> <<a href="tel:%28504%29%20723-7796" target="_blank" class="">tel:%28504%29%20723-7796</a>>
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