Honeyvine & Friends
The critters love it, but it is very invasive. Since it's a larval food source for the Monarch's, I leave plenty around the sides of my yard. Honeybees, Bumble Bees and other insects really like it, too.
****Here's some info FROM a GARDEN SITE (Not My Words): "I never really understood honeyvine until i watched the tiny, very insignificant flowers go to seed. Yes, they make the same basic pods like any conventional milkweed, just smaller and on crooked, pipejoint like stems. I had to look it up. This was some 30 years ago, but there it is--listed in the book, "Nebraska Weeds," and clearly a member of the milkweed family.
That said, there is not one drop of latex anywhere, throughout this plant. Leave it to an insect to still smell the right phytochemicals, lay her eggs and hatch out larvae that will be just as nourished by it, as any conventional milkweed!
I believe it was 8 or 9 years ago, that I saw a Monarch caterpillar feeding on honeyvine. One can just about classify some plants by host-specific bugs that are found on them."
Honeyvine & Friends
The critters love it, but it is very invasive. Since it's a larval food source for the Monarch's, I leave plenty around the sides of my yard. Honeybees, Bumble Bees and other insects really like it, too.
****Here's some info FROM a GARDEN SITE (Not My Words): "I never really understood honeyvine until i watched the tiny, very insignificant flowers go to seed. Yes, they make the same basic pods like any conventional milkweed, just smaller and on crooked, pipejoint like stems. I had to look it up. This was some 30 years ago, but there it is--listed in the book, "Nebraska Weeds," and clearly a member of the milkweed family.
That said, there is not one drop of latex anywhere, throughout this plant. Leave it to an insect to still smell the right phytochemicals, lay her eggs and hatch out larvae that will be just as nourished by it, as any conventional milkweed!
I believe it was 8 or 9 years ago, that I saw a Monarch caterpillar feeding on honeyvine. One can just about classify some plants by host-specific bugs that are found on them."