Hmm … Is it current? Seems to be. This is the whole message I received. I know
Maryalyce who sent the fwd to VA local Audubon members, so that part is
current. Looks like she got it from a current source.
IF Home Depot are ahead of the curve, I would not want to be the one passing on
old information. Better to applaud them for any small gains they do make. I’ll
show the letter to our local Home Depot and see what they say.
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On Apr 30, 2017, at 3:25 PM, Maryalyce Johnsen <maryalyce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Dear Audubon members,
I received this email today from my Chesapeake Bay Garden Cub and
thought it would be of interest to you since it refers to Milkweed Plants
that are labeled desirable for BIRDS and butterflies. Take a few moments to
read below and see the picture at the end with the tags concerning the
Neonicotiniods. There is even a Hummingbird on the plant label.
Happy birding,
Maryalyce
Be Aware!
Dear VFGC Club Presidents,
Our NGC President, Sandy Robinson, has sent information to us on some
harmful milkweed plants that are being sold now in "big box stores." It is
important that we do not plant milkweed plants that have been treated with
Neonicotiniods.
Please read Sandy's message and share the information wtih your club members.
Thank you.
Janice Clem
2015-17 VFGC President
FROM: Sandy Robinson, President
DATE: April 27, 2017
SUBJECT: Milkweed
It has been brought to my attention that some “Big Stores” have been
selling Milkweed plants that have been treated with systemic Neonicotinoids.
This will kill caterpillars! Please, be aware and be on the lookout for
these tags placed in plants. Please pass this information along to your
garden club members!
See the below letter and picture I received from Mary Ellen Miller
explaining the situation:
Dear Sandy, I know you are busy ending your term. We, in New Orleans, just
hosted the Deep South and LGCF Conventions, but this needs immediate
attention.
I purchased 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 treated with systemic
Neonicotinoids. 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.
The container says distributed by Home Depot, 2455 Paces Ferry Rd N. W.,
Atlanta , Georgia.
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.
We need a notice to Home Depot from a national source. I contacted the
Monarch Watch organization ,www.MonarchWatch.org/ws
<http://www.monarchwatch.org/ws> at the University of Kansas (1200 Sunnyside
Avenue, Lawrence, KS 66045) . The Little Shadows Junior Garden Club
registered our Monarch Waystation with them.
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?
Mary Ellen Miller
Shady Oaks Garden Club , LGCF District II
Moderator Little Shadows Junior Garden Club
Immediate Past President Federated Council of New Orleans Garden Clubs Inc.
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