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5 Reasons We Raise Monarchs INDOORS❓🤔
The PROBLEMS of Raising Monarchs Outdoors
Greetings Monarch Raiser,
here’s our latest update at the beginning on this labor day holiday weekend…be sure to click the ‘share your experience’ link in this newsletter and scroll down that blog page to our lessons learned and 4 new photos.
In Minnesota, we’re still in the midst of raising our migration generation butterflies. What started as 4, has now become SEVEN migration monarchs.
We have four chrysalides, one instar 4 caterpillar that snuck in as a blackhead egg, one instar 3 caterpillar I found on the milkweed growing out of our deck crack, and another instar 3 growing on our water feature swamp milkweed. (photo on linked page below)
The deck milkweed has been regularly patrolled by wasps, so I’m not sure how the caterpillar survived, and the water feature caterpillar was doubly lucky…more details on the share your experience page linked page below.
It's now late-August and many of you are still raising your migration generation butterflies, or perhaps, just about to start?
If you've gone through the all raise the migration info, and released your final butterflies for 2024, please check out the following info...
This is an opportunity to post what you've learned, what raising challenges you faced, and anything new you'll be doing to improve your raising process in 2025.
You can fill out the comment box at the bottom of the linked page below.
Please do not post questions in the comment box as blog comments are not a good platform for ongoing discussions. This is specifically to share your 2024 raising experience including any helpful tips you think will benefit others in the community. Thanks in advance for sharing! 😊
You can share your experience here:
Share YOUR 2024 Raising Results and Experience ⬅️ (5 reasons we prefer raising INDOORS + Updates)
Remember, if you've missed any of the posts on raising monarchs through the butterfly life cycle you can catch up here:
Coming Soon?
In the next couple weeks I will be adding my final results to the Share Your Experience post and also getting back to the garden with helpful info on our favorite planting season for perennials...FALL! 🍂
Until then,
Happy Raising 🌿🐛🦋🙌
Tony G
