I had a nice crop of milk-weedy stuff,
With pods full of floating white soft seedy fluff.
I was a proud Asclepius plant daddy,
‘Cuz my milkweed didn’t look chewed and ratty.
Until these striped larvae started acting so bad,
Eating my milkweed and making me sad.

ISU Monarchs: monarch.ent.iastate.edu

Biscuits and gravy! Holy guacamole!
Weeds grow fast but crops so slowly.
A weed is a ruthless and space-stealing dude,
It hogs all the water and gobbles plant food.
Golly and crud and son of a gun!
Shucks and dagnabbit, weeds sure aren’t fun!

Under the wide and dusky sky
Plant the seed and let it lie
Glad did it grow and gladly die
And the stems were buried by till
This be the verse you grave for me
Here he farms where he longed to be
Home is the farmer, home from the field
And the pickup home from the road

@alabamaed1.bsky.social

Smokey Bear has a brother Jake
He lives in a cave at the edge of a lake
He's not known like his famous relation
But he plays a part in our nation
Jake Bear doesn't care about smoke
But he gets angry if one rule is broke
That's if campers don't do as they should
And spread pests when moving firewood