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In the human world, businesses offering refreshments are known as restaurants, bars or coffee houses and are popular gathering places. In the insect world, refreshments are often provided by plants and these too are popular gathering places. Some of the hottest insect watering holes in the Tehachapi area are narrowleaf milkweed plants (Ascelpias fascicularis).I’ve written about these plants before (they are November’s topic in this year’s Tehachapi 101 calendar) and I mentioned their importance to pre-contact Nüwa (Kawaiisu) Indians of Tehachapi, who used the plant’s fibrous inner bark to make string. The Nüwa word for both string and milkweed plants is wuh-iv.For insects, narrowleaf milkweed is a supreme source of flower nectar and plant juices. I have photographed dozens of different insect species drinking at narrowleaf milkweed blossoms. A widespread and hardy plant, they can suddenly appear as quickly as a new Starbucks and are just as...
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