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2016 Monarch Butterfly Rearing and Tagging

3/21/2017

Butterfly Circus!

Training a monarch butterfly to dance on your finger isn't easy. It may be impossible. For a few hours after a monarch butterfly emerges from its chrysalis it is dependent on having a safe place to dry it's wings before flying. For that short period of time the monarch is a great companion. For the rest of its life it is your best memory.

Here is the data record of monarch butterflies that were reared at The Biggest Little Butterfly Garden In The World. Monarch Waystation #8269 is a 200 square foot monarch waystation located in my backyard in the town of Sparks, Nevada USA.

8/3/16 #31 Female
8/4/16 #32 Male
8/5/16 #33 Female
8/11/16 #34 Female
8/12/16 #35 Male
8/14/16 #36 Male m
8/14/16 #37 Female
8/21/16 #38 Female
8/22/16 #39 Female WSU tag A1656
8/22/16 #40 Female WSU tag A1657
8/23/16 #41 Male A1658
8/23/16 #42 Male A1659
8/23/16 #43 Male A1660
8/23/16 #44 Female A1661
8/23/16 #45 Male A1662
8/23/16 #46 Female A1663
8/23/16 #47 Female A1664
8/23/16 #48 Male A1665
8/23/16 #49 Female A1666
8/23/16 #50 Female A1667
8/23/16 #51 Female A1668
8/23/16 #52 Female A1669
8/23/16 #53 Male A1670
8/23/16 #54 Male A1671
8/23/16 #55 Female A1672
8/23/16 #56 Male A1673
8/24/16 #57 Female
8/24/16 #58 Female
9/11/16 #59 Male A1674
9/11/16 #60 Male A1675
9/11/16 #61 Female

2015 Monarch Butterfly Rearing Roundup

4/18/2016

On June 22nd, 2015 I posted a page titled MONARCH BUTTERFLIES ARE EVERYWHERE. At the end of the page I set a goal to raise and release 25 monarch butterflies. "I set a personal goal to raise 2,500% more monarchs in 2015 than I did in 2014." Did I meet my goal?

The 2015 Monarch Butterfly Rearing Roundup lets you know how I did at achieving my goal. I couldn't be more satisfied with the results. Take a look at the following multimedia about the monarchs I raised in the summer of 2015.

2015
Monarch #2 Beckham male WSU tag #3015
Monarch #3 Cali female WSU tag #3013
Monarch #4 Diego male WSU tag #3001
Monarch #5 Eva female WSU tag #3002
Monarch #6 Fernando male WSU tag #3003
Monarch #7 Gail female WSU tag #3004
Monarch #8 Hurley male WSU tag #3008
Monarch #9 Iola female WSU tag #3007
Monarch #10 Jesse male WSU tag #3005
Monarch #11 Katniss female WSU tag #3009
Monarch #12 Leaf female WSU tag #3010
Monarch #13 Macon male WSU tag #3011
Monarch #14 Nancy female WSU tag #3012
Monarch #15 Oakley male WSU tag #3014
Monarch #16 Padraic male WSU tag #3016
Monarch #17 Quest male WSU tag #3017
Monarch #18 Rufus male WSU tag #3018
Monarch #19 Scooby male WSU tag #3019
Monarch #20 Talbot male WSU tag #3020
Monarch #21 Uma female WSU tag #3022
Monarch #22 Viper male WSU tag #3023
Monarch #23 Wadsworth male WSU tag #3024
Monarch #24 Xavier male WSU tag #3025
Monarch #25 Yale male WSU tag #A1651
Monarch #26 Zander male WSU tag #A1652
Monarch #27 Agatha female WSU tag #A1653
Monarch #28 Brad male NO TAG undersized
Monarch #29 Connor male WSU tag #A1654
Monarch #30 Dean male WSU tag #A1655

WSU Tag wild female #3021
WSU Tag wild male #3006

Beckham

7/10/15 01:50 Chrysalis is nearly clear. Monarch butterfly wings are clearly visible. Monarch is expected to eclose today.

Rise and shine! This monarch is ready to eclose any moment.

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Jul 10, 2015 at 2:16am PDT

7/10/15 10:30 Monarch has closed. Meconium has been ejected. Wings are symmetrical. Color is great and gender is Male. WSU tag 3015

Beckham is his name, he is perfect. Set him free this afternoon. Quite the looker. Beckham is really going to knock the socks off the female monarchs around Reno. #FIGHTFORYOURRIGHT15

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Jul 10, 2015 at 4:00pm PDT

Cali

8/16/15 10:00 Cali eclosed and is drying her wings. Gender is female. WSU Tag #3013

8/16/15 13:30 Cali is released!

Cali released

8/7/15 01:00 Cali is hanging in a J-hook :) See photo "2nd J-Hook of 2015"

2nd J-Hook of 2015 #danausplexippus #metamorphosis

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 7, 2015 at 10:25am PDT

Cali returns to visit the milkweed 8/17/15 Cali must have know that Diego was being released today.

Yesterday's release of 3013 aka Cali has returned to visit The Biggest Little Butterfly Garden In The World! Wonderful to know she is doing well. □

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 17, 2015 at 11:07am PDT

Diego

8/17/15 at Diego eclosed at 11:00. Meconium ejected at 11:40. Diego was released at 13:50

Meet Diego. Tag #3001 I hope Diego meets Cali and they get together over milkweed very soon. #danausplexippus

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 17, 2015 at 1:24pm PDT

Meet Diego. Born 8/17/15 Diego is part of generation tres. Late August monarchs can be the most popular because they are out mixing it up with flowers and milkweed all day everyday. In 2014 I saw the most monarchs between August 15 and the 30th. I am seeing many monarchs during the same period this year. It is unlikely that Diego will join the migration. It would be really cool to see Diego and Cali both visit me tomorrow. I'm pretty sure I will be releasing another monarch to join them very soon.

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 17, 2015 at 7:51pm PDT

Eva

Eva is a special little monarch. She attached to the vertical wall of the enclosure. A slight tilt to the enclosure helped reduce the pressure on the side of her chrysalis. Eva eclosed at 8:00 8/19/15 Meconium ejected at 8:40. Wings look good!

Cliffhanger attached itself to the vertical surface of the enclosures door. I'm glad it chose the door. Before it selected this location I had caught it while it fell during a transition to the ceiling. Had it tried going to the ceiling again I wouldn't have been around to catch it a second time.

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 18, 2015 at 9:41pm PDT

Double monarch release this morning. It was pretty epic. Her name is Eva. #shareyourmonarchs

A video posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 19, 2015 at 4:06pm PDT

Fernando

8/19/15 Fernando eclosed at 9:30 Meconium ejected at 10:00. Fernando is the second of two new monarchs today.

Eva and Fernando seemed inseparable. After they were released they both flew across the yard and landed feet apart in a tree.

Eva and Fernando

Following yesterday's release. The butterfly pair both flew across the yard to the same tree.

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 23, 2015 at 8:25am PDT

Gail

8/20/15 9:00 new butterfly eclosed. Time-lapse and slow-motion video taken.

Slow motion video

Time lapse video

Hurley

8/22/2015 Hurley is the guy on the right in this photo.

Iola

8/22/15 Iola is on the left in this photo.

Two monarch butterflies released today. A boy and girl.

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 22, 2015 at 2:39pm PDT

After today's release they both flew to the same tree together. #shareyourmonarchs #milkweed pic.twitter.com/65xMGF0Qfw
— Brad G. (@growmilkweed) August 22, 2015

Jesse

8/29/15 Jesse eclosed at 7:40 and is a male monarch. He was brought to work to release. WSU tag #3005

Bring your butterfly to work day today. pic.twitter.com/QIoNQCQNzc
— Brad G. (@growmilkweed) August 29, 2015

Katniss

9/5/15 Katniss eclosed at 12:00. She has been tagged with WSU tag #3009.

Meet Katniss. Katniss is now flying around in Northern Nevada. She is looking for other monarch butterflies and milkweed plants. She may even fly to California for the winter.

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 5, 2015 at 9:24pm PDT

Leaf

9/7/15 Leaf eclosed at 10:00. She has been tagged with WSU tag 3010. At 14:00 she was released with photos.

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 7, 2015 at 2:00pm PDT

Introducing my Medicine Cabinet Monarch. The entire metamorphosis occurred in my bathroom medicine cabinet. Strange but true □

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 11, 2015 at 3:03pm PDT

Macon

9/11/15 Macon is quite obviousely named after my favorite food; bacon. Macon was released at 12:00 with WSU tag #3011

Nancy

9/11/15 Nancy and Macon flew free together. Nancy was been tagged with WSU tag #2012. She is named after my grandma Nancy.

Macon & Nancy Macon rhymes with bacon, which I love. Nancy is my grandmothers name. I love her to. Sent the grandparents an email to let them know a monarch has been named after her. These are also freedom monarchs that eclosed on the 14th anniversary of 9/11. #□□

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 12, 2015 at 5:38pm PDT

Oakley

9/13/15 Top

Padraic

9/13/15 Middle

Quest

9/13/15 Bottom

Good chance this flying flower is the mother. She laid numerous eggs on August 17th.

She left but returned. I guess I'm the only milkweed on the block. pic.twitter.com/ifxWzvSBRV
— Brad G. (@growmilkweed) August 17, 2015

Boys club today. Three male monarchs eclosed and released. 9/13/15 □□□

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 13, 2015 at 2:02pm PDT

Rufus

9/14/15

Scooby

9/14/15

Talbot

9/14/15

Uma

9/14/15

Viper

9/14/15

5 MONARCHS RELEASED TODAY! I'll stop yelling now. One female surrounded by four males. It's was a pretty good day. Even got the escrow documents signed for Milkweed Manor, twice. Two days till I move. About five monarchs are still being raised for conservation.

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 14, 2015 at 6:33pm PDT

My tagged monarch from yesterday has returned to the milkweed 20 hours later. #3022 pic.twitter.com/KMkpDKN1xL
— Brad G. (@growmilkweed) September 15, 2015

Wadsworth

9/15/15

Xavier

9/15/15

Yale

9/20/15

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 20, 2015 at 10:31pm PDT

Zander

9/21/15

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 21, 2015 at 7:33pm PDT

Agatha

9/24/15 Agatha female WSU tag #A1653

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 25, 2015 at 1:51pm PDT

Brad

9/26/15

Brad is a special little butterfly. Brad fell from his silk while attaching his cremaster. I picked him up and attached him to some spare silk then taped him back up. He successfully emerged. Brad is the smallest monarch I have ever released. A small chrysalis makes for a small butterfly. Butterflies do not grow after they emerge.

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 26, 2015 at 12:13pm PDT

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 16, 2015 at 12:09pm PDT

Connor

Connor is patiently waiting till morning to fly free. #monarch pic.twitter.com/rzcGb728AY
— Brad G. (@growmilkweed) September 29, 2015

9/28/15 Connor male WSU tag #A1654

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 29, 2015 at 11:45am PDT

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Sep 28, 2015 at 9:39pm PDT

Dean

10/08/15 Dean was the last monarch of the 2015 season. Because of the cooler temperatures it took a full fifteen days in the chrysalis for Dean to eclose.

A photo posted by Grow Milkweed Plants (@growmilkweedplants) on Oct 8, 2015 at 8:11am PDT

WSU Tag wild female #3021

□□ Amazed myself today. Caught this wild female monarch butterfly by hand! Tagged it with a @wsupullman research tag then released her onto milkweed. It was rad! #science #insect

A photo posted by Brad Grimm (@growmilkweedplants) on Aug 14, 2015 at 5:11pm PDT

Season conclusion

I successfully raised and released twenty-nine monarchs in 2015. I had two fatalities in my care. One first instar caterpillar may have been eaten by a larger caterpillar. Another caterpillar fell ill, leaked green liquid and quickly dissolved into a black liquid. Presumably it was a bacterial infection. That was a tough loss.

The difficulities were few and the successes far outweighed them. Increasing the amount of milkweed available for monarchs in my yard has created a safe place for them to reproduce. Having a monarch waystation brought the monarchs to the yard throughout the summer months.

Last year I was living in a rental home and the yard was not my own. At the end of the season I relocated my potted milkweed to others in the community. The yard is likely to be overhauled with new plants. New for 2016 is my new house, Milkweed Manor. The landscaping in the backyard was a blank slate. A 180 square foot pollinator garden was incorporated into the landscaping.

The goal in 2016 is to foster an awareness of milkweed as a favored plant in residential landscaping. By growing native milkweed plants in my own yard I can share the value that the garden has to butterflies, birds and bees. If you are interested in locating native milkweed then please use the Milkweed Locator tool.

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Monarch Butterflies are Everywhere

6/22/2015

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Monarch's are now all over North America. Mexico has monarchs. America has monarchs. Canada has monarchs. Summertime is primetime for monarchs to migrate. Use the milkweed locater to see which type of milkweed is native to your state.

Monarchs are not on My Milkweed, Why?

The distribution of monarchs can appear to be uneven at times. I am happy to have seen a total of three monarchs in my yard this year. It is still early in the monarch's migration season. No eggs have been laid on my milkweed yet.

The milkweed patch is a busy habitat for hundreds of animals that visit the plant throughout the summer. Bees are actively pollinating the blooms. Spiders are laying in wait for tiny bugs. Tiny bugs are striving to survive on the milkweed plants. One of the smallest animals on milkweed is the monarch caterpillar.

Caterpillars can be very difficult to see when they are small. A newly hatched caterpillar is only 2-6mm in length (source: Monarch Watch) and nearly transparent. The day after my latest caterpillar hatched I didn't see it on the milkweed until two days later. They could be hiding out in the open.

Monarchs need time to reproduce

The monarch lifecycle is an amazing process. Metamorphosis is incredibly complex and requires that many steps in the process goes well for the monarch to take flight. An entire metamorphosis from egg to butterfly occurs in about 30 days.

As monarchs enter your region of N. America they may be at the end of their short life. An egg laying female is likely to lay as many as 500 eggs on the milkweed plants in her lifetime. Those eggs take about a week to hatch the tiny caterpillar. It may be another week before you notice the leaves being chewed up by the hungry caterpillars.

Once the caterpillars have grown thru five instars they may have crawled away from the milkweed to form the chrysalis. The chrysalis is the last step in metamorphosis before the butterfly takes flight. As fun as looking for monarchs in flight can be, we may be looking in the wrong place.

Egg, caterpillar and chrysalis are also monarchs that haven't gotten ready to fly. Take some time to look at the milkweed throughly. Eggs are small, oblong and have a light gold color. You may find an egg before you see a monarch.

Monarch eggs in Twin Falls, Idaho

While traveling to attend a wedding visited a park that I went to in 2014. There was milkweed in the park in 2014 so I was hopeful to find monarchs in 2015. While I did not see any monarchs, I did see a viceroy butterfly.

The Viceroy butterfly (Limenitis archippus) has the orange and black color that resembles a monarch butterfly but has a distinct black line which does not appear on a monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus).

The adult Viceroy will nectar on milkweed and other pollinating flowers but their host plant is not milkweed. A Viceroy caterpillar will eat willow and cottonwood's rather than milkweed.

Viceroy

Although I had not seen a monarch in flight I chose to search for signs that there were monarchs visiting the many milkweed plants in the park.

By looking under the leaves of the showy milkweed plants I was able to observe eight monarch eggs. By finding eight eggs I was able to confirm, without a doubt, monarchs are flying around in Twin Falls Idaho.

Roadside mowing is a real threat to milkweed. In this photo the milkweed was just out of reach of the mowers blades. If you look closely at the leaves you will see that some of the nearby plants are piercing these showy milkweed leaves.

Pesticide and herbicide use is another threat to milkweed. Fortunately, the plants in this park don't appear to getting sprayed by pesticides or herbicides. Thistles did get hit by roundup or other similar product. Luckily for the milkweed community they were spared the spray this week.

Perrine bridge milkweed

Raising monarchs at home

In one month a monarch can be raised in your home. With a little preparation and a lot of patience you can contribute to the monarch butterfly population explosion that is overdue. I have a goal to raise and release twenty-five healthy monarch butterflies in 2015.

The most natural approach to supporting monarchs is to grow milkweed on your property. Monarch waystations and pollinator gardens are hugely successful and provide wonderful habitats for monarchs and other beneficial insects.

Currently I am growing milkweed in a monarch waystation. The name of my way station is "The Biggest Little Butterfly Garden In The World" Monarch waystation #8269 as registered with the Monarch Watch Waystation Program. Registering your garden is not necessary. I chose to register and even ordered the cool sign. I consider it a donation to a good cause.

The monarchs habitat is a cruel unforgiving place to grow up. Spending a month outside in the elements is dangerous, even in the summer, for a monarch larvae. Eggs get eaten, caterpillars become meals. Chrysalids can become damaged. Any one of these events will kill that monarch larvae.

To control the process I am trying to raise this years 25 monarchs indoors. By preventing eggs from being eaten. Keeping caterpillars from becoming meals. And by hosting the chrysalids in a safe place I plan to increase the survival rate from a dismal 5% to above 75%. Some folks raising monarchs report successful rearing of above 95%. By removing a few variable from the environment the monarchs stand a better chance of completing their metamorphosis.

From One to Twenty-Five in only One Year

As a monarch enthusiast I am seeking to spur a monarch butterfly population explosion. With the population at record lows we are faced with a tipping point. On one end is extinction and on the other end is survival of the species. I set a personal goal to raise 2,500% more monarchs in 2015 than I did in 2014.

Time is the biggest factor that is working against me. September is when all monarchs depart Reno, NV. To my advantage, I have more milkweed now than I had last year. I am also getting an earlier start on the season by nearly two months. As I am writing this there is one caterpillar eating tropical milkweed in my new rearing cage.

monarch caterpillar (larvae)

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Raising a Monarch from caterpillar to butterfly

9/27/2014

Monarch Butterflies progress thru the four major life stages at different speeds.

Egg,
Caterpillar,
Pupa (Chrysalis),
Butterfly

- and repeat.

I collected a caterpillar from a milkweed leaf on September 19th 2014. I am sharing my experience with rearing this caterpillar, later named Andy, to a butterfly and releasing Andy with a tag for the Southwest Monarch Study.

September 19th 2014 at 12:30pm

I found Andy on a Showy milkweed leaf. Andy was near a nature trail path and at risk of being eaten by a predator or trampled by a visitor. Due to the relatively low survival rate of monarchs from egg to butterfly in nature. I decided to load Andy in the car and take on the task of raising the caterpillar into a butterfly. Although I had read at length on the subject, I was in for a big learning experience. Andy is the first caterpillar I have attempted to raise in my home. It has been a very rewarding experience that began by planting milkweed in my garden.

September 21st 2014 at 11:12am

Andy was a caterpillar when it was found. I don't have the date that it came out of it's egg. Since I don't know how long Andy has been a caterpillar it is difficult to know what date it will become a Pupa. I do know that Andy is pretty huge and I expect it to form a chrysalis at any moment. Andy is currently eating two and three inch tropical milkweed leaves at a rate of five to seven leaves per day. The tropical milkweed in my garden grew great this year. If you want to grow tropical milkweed form seed then consider buying 100 tropical milkweed seeds in my store. The tender leaves made Andy grow fast.

Monarch Caterpillar eating Tropical Milkweed rearing at home.

September 22nd 2014 at 5:33am

Late last night Andy climbed to the top of the plastic box. Andy attached itself to the provided paper towel roof by creating a cremaster and began hanging in the shape of a "J". Once in this position the caterpillar is already beginning to transform. I noticed that the tentacles had become wilted and seemed crispy like ash. Fortunately, during the transformation into a chrysalis the tentacles along with the outer skin will be shed and discarded. Andy hung like this for about twenty-four to thirty-six hours. And then magically changed.

September 23rd 2014 at 9:06pm

After dinner I checked on Andy. No visible changes had occurred. Andy was hanging in a "J" shape and seemingly had no intention to change at all. But to my surprise it was well on it's way to a chrysalis. Only a mere thirty minutes later I returned to see that Andy was now a bright green chrysalis. Know that I know it was at 9:00pm on September 23rd 2014 that it formed a chrysalis. I began researching how long it will remain in this form before the big emergence as a monarch butterfly. I am expecting 10-14 days.

September 24th 2014 at 11:30am

Only one day form my last update and the chrysalis has become a rich green color. I find the stripe near the top to be very unusual. Looks like a part of the caterpillars skin got wrapped into its new skin. The bright yellow dots mid was down the bottom are also quite intriguing. In the photo to the lower left of the pupa is a fuzzy black thing. That is the original caterpillar skin. When it became a pupa it shed the caterpillar skin and it fell to the bottom on the tub I am keeping it in. Be sure the chrysalis is in a bright room but out of any direct sunlight.

September 27th 2014 at 11:30am

I have been waiting patiently for a few days. Without much to look at besides a green droplet hanging from a paper towell the process can seem a bit boring. So I decided to try and determent the gender of the monarch that is inside. From my research I decided that I think Andy is a female monarch. I read that there is a small vertical line on the section below the three pairs of black dots that begin at the cremaster. I have put an arrow in the spyglass pointing to the line that i think confirms my best guess. We will know soon if this method works. On a male the line would not appear below the three parallel black dots.

October 5th 2014 at 8:25am

Exactly eleven and a half days have passed since the caterpillar formed the chrysalis. Yesterday there was a darker color to the chrysalis but it is only in the last ten hours that it has become nearly translucent. The color on the wings is pretty vivid in this photograph. In this photo the Monarch butterfly is just thirty minutes away from emerging completely transformed from the caterpillar that I had less than twelve days ago.

October 5th 2014 at 10:09am

Andy is a female! Little did I know that at about 10:05am the monarch butterfly I named Andy eclose. Quickly and without notice. While I was having my morning coffee on the front porch Andy was not going to wait any longer. As soon as a monarch emerges it begins the process of expanding its wings. While the wings are strengthining and forming they are also becoming symmetrical for future flight. This process takes a few hours. The gender identity on September 27th was correct.

October 5th 2014 at 3:19pm

Andy has been given over five hours to gain confidence in the ability of its beautiful wings. I tagged Andy's wing just moments before releasing her into my yard. The tag on Andy's wing includes a number and email address for the Southwest Monarch Study. If you locate a tagged monarch your can help in the process of learning about their migration by reporting the tag number and location to the contact found on the tag. I am optimistic that Andy will be found so I can learn where she has traveled.

2016 Monarch Butterfly Rearing and Tagging

Butterfly Circus!

2015 Monarch Butterfly Rearing Roundup

Beckham

Cali

Diego

Eva

Fernando

Gail

Hurley

Iola

Jesse

Katniss

Leaf

Macon

Nancy

Oakley

Padraic

Quest

Rufus

Scooby

Talbot

Uma

Viper

Wadsworth

Xavier

Yale

Zander

Agatha

Brad

Connor

Dean

WSU Tag wild female #3021

Season conclusion

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Monarch Butterflies are Everywhere

Monarchs are not on My Milkweed, Why?

Monarchs need time to reproduce

Monarch eggs in Twin Falls, Idaho

Raising monarchs at home

From One to Twenty-Five in only One Year

Raising a Monarch from caterpillar to butterfly

Monarch Butterflies progress thru the four major life stages at different speeds.

September 19th 2014 at 12:30pm

September 21st 2014 at 11:12am

September 22nd 2014 at 5:33am

September 23rd 2014 at 9:06pm

September 24th 2014 at 11:30am

September 27th 2014 at 11:30am

October 5th 2014 at 8:25am

October 5th 2014 at 10:09am

October 5th 2014 at 3:19pm

I created a video documenting the metamorphosis of Andy.

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