🌿🐛☠️😱 12 Caterpillar KILLERS

July 31, 2024

Happy 🐫 Day Fine Raisers,

I hope you're off to a great week so far...🚀

The dog days of summer are upon us and it’s a sultry sauna here in Minnesota with the dew point near 70°F. 🫠

We are getting regular monarch visits from both males and females, and much of our milkweed is being utilized for egg laying. 🥚🥚🥚🥚🦋 I hope you are seeing signs of life in your milkweed patches too?

In your last newsletter, we discussed your hopefully healthy caterpillar going on a 2000% growth spurt 😱

But what happens when a growing monarch is having health issues❓🤮🦋

Today's topic of conversation for Raise The Migration 2024 receives the most online searches and questions from the community...🤔

The goal of raise the migration is to help you raise healthy monarchs to release for the great fall migration, so be sure to check out these important tips so you can achieve that goal 📙🧐 🙌 🦋

Monarch Diseases and PREVENTION 🔑 RTM 2024

Most of the time when people contact me with monarch 'health issues' it's already too late to save them.☹️ The key to growing healthy monarchs is prevention, and once you get that down, it will change your entire raising experience.

Here are 12 common issues with monarchs, with tips for how you can prevent them from ruining your (and your monarchs!) raising experience:

and check out supplies for raising healthy monarchs butterflies here:

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle <<< click to find your supplies

Coming Up NEXT? 🧐

Close Encounters of the CHRYSALIS Kind...the 3rd stage of the butterfly life cycle unfolds. Until then...

Blue Skies and Healthy Monarch Butterflies 🦋🦋🦋

Tony your Butterfly Guide