🌿🐛☠️😱 12 Caterpillar KILLERS: RTM '25

Happy Weekend Royal RAISErs,

In your last newsletter, we discussed fast-growing monarch caterpillars 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 2025 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 2025

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:

☠️ 🦋🪰 12 Monarch Diseases, Parasites, and Caterpillar Killers ⬅️

✅ In Stock: Floral Tubes + Racks 🌿🐛

You’ve probably noticed all of our cages and cage liners are completely sold out, and we aren’t restocking.

The three final raising products we have are floral tubes (8 pack) floral tube racks ( set of 2), and little hole floral tube lids (8 pack).

At this time, they are selling at a brisk pace on amazon, but they haven’t released inventory for the racks into our shop so I’m sharing the amazon links before the tubes/racks sell out (probably by the end of August if not before)

My suggestion is to buy 1 of each item so you can have 4 tubes for each rack + the little hole lids work well when you are using thin-stemmed cuttings:

1. 8 Pack Floral Tubes (8 floral tubes with regular lids)

2. Set of 2 Floral Tube RACKS (tubes are NOT included)

3. Little Hole LIDS (OPTIONAL lids for thin-stemmed cuttings to prevent baby caterpillar drownings)

Of course, if you want to stock up for future raising, keep in mind we will not be selling these products after our shop closes this season.

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