Sea Terrace Park Habitat in Dana Point
NEW Monarch Butterfly Habitat at Sea Terrace Park - Dana Point, California! The City of Dana Point is committed to bringing monarchs back and creating habitat in their parks!...
17 July, 2021
Habitats Protect Caterpillars
Habitats Protect Monarch Caterpillars from all Predators
The best way to protect your monarch caterpillars is to raise them in netted butterfly habitats! Why is that necessary? I'll tell you my experience. . . ...
30 July, 2020
Bleaching Milkweed and Monarch eggs to Eliminate O.e.
O.e. is a microscopic parasite on tropical milkweed can over a year or two accumulate to where it seriously damages if not kills monarch caterpillars and butterflies. To help eliminate it, some people bleach the milkweed in a 5% bleach solution to water. Some even...
23 June, 2020
Monarch Butterflies arrive in my Orange County Garden – May 2018
Every year raising monarchs is unique and different! Butterfly gardening is a constant growing experience and a source of great awe and wonder!...
22 March, 2018
Why Are My Monarchs Turning Black and Dying?
A certain percentage of monarch caterpillars and chrysalides just don't make it into adulthood and become butterflies. Learn about "Black Death" ...
29 April, 2017
First Flight of Newborn Monarch Caterpillar
Awesome moment in raising monarch butterflies is the release of a newly eclosed (emerged) monarch!...
04 August, 2016
Tachinid Flies Lay Eggs in Monarch Chrysalis
When the monarch butterfly is in the pupae stage, inside its chrysalis, it is prey to the tachinid fly...
12 April, 2016
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