The North American Monarch might be the most commonly known Monarch butterfly, but did you know that this is not the only Monarch in the world? There is also the African Monarch, Indian Monarch,...
Category: Butterflies & Caterpillars
If you are wondering how long a Monarch Butterfly lives, the answer is that it depends on how you are asking the question. You see, the Monarch butterfly isn't born a butterfly. It starts its life as...
Growing up in the Chicago suburbs in the 1980s and '90s, Monarch butterflies were such a common sight during the summers. It wasn't until I got older, got married, bought a house in the same...
A few years ago I started a memorial butterfly garden for a son we lost during pregnancy. As I started to research butterfly gardens, I kept coming across articles about the drastic decline of the...
Throughout our first year of raising Monarchs in the garden, we had five Monarchs that successfully made it from egg to caterpillar to butterfly. While this number may not seem high, our garden was...
If you live in the United States or Canada, you've probably read or heard news stories about the drastic decline in Monarch butterflies migrating to Mexico in the fall. After reading some of those...