Xeriscaping in Eeyore's Thistle Patch

"Just because you hear a buzzing-noise coming from a tree
doesn't mean you're going to get any honey."

From "Eeyore's Gloomy Little Instruction Book"

Mung Recipe

Mmmm...Mung

Some butterflies aren't nectar eaters. For those, and a few others who look for a little diversity in their diets, mung provides the perfect snack. You can whip it up at home. Start with a base of molasses, add old bananas or other rotting fruit. Add enough beer to make the mixture spread easily. Leave it in a container for a few days. Then, spread it onto a tree limb or create a feeding station. Now watch for your new visitors!

Nearly all larvae feed on plant matter, chiefly green foliage, but in some groups they are wood borers or scavengers of dead plant or, rarely, animal matter -- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia....
...There are more grody things in the mechanisms of life on earth, than we wish to admit in our philosophy.

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Magic Wings -- The Miracle of the Life Cycle

The importance of providing both Nectar and Larval foods for butterflies; Least hassle combinations of Nectar and Larval foods; plants to repel pests but attract butterflies; plant trivia; short-order Nectar and Larval foods for particular butterflies; comprehensive profiles of selected butterfly personalities, identification, range, habits and food preferences

Nectar foods for butterflies that for the most part also attract hummingbirds and are drought-tolerant, low maintenance; and, Larval foods for butterflies that are for the most part drought-tolerant, and low maintenance

Oscar the Grouch's Worst Mung Recipe -- Yum! Yum! Retch!

Tired of mosquitoes? Concerned about insecticides hurting your hummers, butterflies, caterpillars, world? Adore Michael Keaton in black? Protect the underdog! Put up housing for bats. Creepy? Not after you check out the Bat Conservation International website. OK, I still don't think bats are cuddly, but who cares? The ecosystem needs us to recognize them as the beneficial, gentle, pest-slurping creatures they are. The Purple Martins do a great job, but somebody's got to take the night shift.

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