What is Egg Loading?
You’ve heard the statement, “Three’s a crowd!” Well, in the monarch world the same holds true. Laying eggs on healthy, lush milkweed plants is extraordinarily important. Emerging monarch caterpillars chew, munch and [...]
Monarchs Mating
PHOTO: Katherine Elliott
Monarch Eggs
PHOTO: Jane Kegel PHOTO: BFpage via Chicago Botanic Garden. Read the article on Monarch Butterfly Larvae and caterpillar at the Marty Davis blog. PHOTO: Marty Davis Photography PHOTO: Lord V via Flickr. PHOTO: Ted Kinsman [...]
How to Disinfect Butterfly Eggs
Learn how to to disinfect Monarch Butterfly eggs in this article from Butterfly Fun Facts. “Why should I do that,” you ask? To protect hatching Monarch caterpillars and [...]
Papalotzin – The flight of the Monarch Butterfly
This film follows the yearly migration of some 50 million butterflies in an ultralight plane decorated with the colors of the Monarch Butterfly from Canada to Mexico. It is full of aerial [...]
Following the Monarchs in an Ultralight Airplane
Each year millions of monarch butterflies spread all over North America converge on small forests in the mountains of Mexico. In 2005, the butterflies had company — Francisco Gutierrez. He followed the monarchs’ [...]
Dreamy Visit to Mexico’s Monarch Butterfly Roosts
This timely post from the Texas Butterfly Ranch blog shares the adventures of Monika Maeckle and her husband Robert Rivard as they make an ambitious climb up Cerro Pelón to view [...]
Butterbike
ButterBike is the fourth project of Beyond a Book, an organization that uses the experiences of real life adventurers to engage students and bring curriculum to life. ButterBike connects the monarch’s story to [...]
Misplaced Monarchs: Clusters of butterflies stuck up north
Thanks to our unusually warm fall, Monarch butterflies, normally winging their way to Mexico for the winter by late September, were still in northern areas in late October. Scientists say tens of thousands [...]