During the last week, I have resumed care of my monarchs in very stages of their life cycle. Right now, I have the following: 8 Chyrsalises 4 Larvae in J hooks 4 Larvae in the earliest instar stages 2 eggs What is unusual about this year, besides getting a very late start to finding monarch…
raising monarchs
Tiny Charges
Earlier this week, toward the end of the vacation my husband and I took to the island country of Bermuda, I remembered to ask my sister-in-law who was staying with our boys how the monarch eggs that I charged with her care were doing. I did not get a response. Our cell phone service on…
A Quick Change
Today’s post will be short. It was a busy day finishing up my last assignment for the grad course that I am taking on Advanced Interpretive Media. My final was due last Sunday, but this week we had a full load of assignments, the last of which is due tomorrow. My day started with a…
Four Monarchs for the Fourth!
On June 30th, last Friday, I saw my first Monarch of the season! It was at our cabin in the Northwoods of Wisconsin! I have a perennial bed with common milkweed for the caterpillars and nectar plants like purple cone flowers for the adult butterflies. The monarch was flitting from plant to plant! Later, after…