Raising UPDATES + SHARE Your Experience 🌿🐛 ✍

August 24, 2024

Greetings Monarch Raiser,

…how time flies! 🦋 We’re nearing peak migration season and yesterday there were 3 monarchs in our garden jubilantly jumping between late-blooming liatris scariosa and Mexican sunflowers.

In Minnesota, we’re still in the midst of raising our migration generation butterflies.

We have four newly formed chrysalides and one instar 2 caterpillar that must have snuck in as a blackhead egg. The little egg survived my initial milkweed rinsing and steered clear of his massive big brothers and sisters, so he will be a spoiled little cat during his final week of the caterpillar stage.

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...

Raise The Migration 2024- Share Your Experience! ✍️

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:

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 lessons learned 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