Watch as a monarch butterfly emerges (ecloses in scientific terms) from the chrysalis the caterpillar made on a succulent! https://youtu.be/bA0nWLBuYwE Stunning, awing and beautiful to watch, all in real-time. What happens when it emerges (ecloses)? The monarch butterfly emerges after 2 weeks in......
Here are tips on 5 interesting behaviors of Monarch Butterflies including nectaring, basking, puddling, roosting and mating! Despite the development of many survival skills, monarch butterflies are in severe decline. Learning about their miraculous life cycle and behaviors motivates us all to do all we......
There Were 1 Billion Monarch Butterflies. Now There Are 93 Million. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a23472939/monarch-butterflies-endangered-pesticides-climate-change/ A must-read article about how the iconic Monarch Butterflies have declined 98% in the last 20 years. Humans have caused it and humans must reverse it. They not only bring awe, beauty and......
Welcome to all our wholesale customers that carry The Story of Chester, the Monarch Caterpillar/Larva products. We greatly appreciate that you share about monarch butterfly life cycle with visitors to your botanic garden, boutique, florist or market. So we’ve created a point-of-sale flyer for The......
Why Are My Monarchs Turning Black? A certain percentage of monarch caterpillars and chrysalides just don’t make it into adulthood and become butterflies. They may show signs of disease or parasitism. It is heartbreaking but also common. Nature does not intend for them all to......
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Host and Nectar Plants for Monarch Butterfly Gardening butterfly-gardening-tips-from-susie-vanderlip butterfly-host-and-nectar-plants Find Pollinator plants for your area of the US: http://www.xerces.org/pollinator-conservation/plant-lists/ Pollinator plants for Southeast http://www.xerces.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/03/SoutheastPlantList_web.pdf ...
By NOV 1ST – TIME TO PRUNE TROPICAL (EXOTIC) MILKWEED! If you live on the West Coast and bought milkweed from Home Depot, Lowes, Armstrong Nursery, or any other major retailer, it is TROPICAL MILKWEED and needs to be cut back by Nov. 1st to......
FIRST FLIGHT of a newly eclosed Monarch Butterfly on Nov 11,2015...