🌿🐛How to Keep Milkweed Fresh for DAYS + Cage Cleaning Tips 💩💩

Happy Belated Christmas in July, 🎅

welcome back to Raise The Migration 2025 where I share info and tips to help you raise healthy monarchs to release for the great fall migration.

In your last RTM email, I went over baby caterpillar care. One of the most important links in that post (and a question I am often asked) is how to feed caterpillars. So, in case you missed it, check out:

5 Ways to Feed Monarchs with Milkweed Cuttings

Meanwhile, piling up on the cage floor below...

RTM '25: Easy Cage Cleaning for Caterpillars? 🐛💩

All caterpillars have one thing in common: They poop...ALOT!

Cage cleaning isn't the reason most of us started raising monarchs, but regular cage cleaning is a necessity if you want to raise healthy monarchs...

Over the past few years we've added a couple accessories to make cage cleaning easier, and I know they can do the same for you:

Cage Cleaning Tips for Messy Monarch Caterpillars ⬅ 🐛💩💩💩

Recently, I posted about our new outdoor raising setup. I just posted a new video showing the setup and explaining it a bit better. To view it, just scroll down to the bottom of this page:

🎥 How To Raise Monarchs Outdoors: 7 Survival Tips ⬅️ (new outdoor video setup)

WHAT'S NEXT? 🧐

Next time I'll be back to talk about your big fat cats (🐛 not 🐱) and how to deal with running out of milkweed to feed your Very HUNGRY Caterpillars. 😱🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛

Happy Raising,

Tony your Butterfly Guide