Raising and Releasing Monarch Butterflies
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Uploaded by quailgal on Aug 6, 2009
Almost every year now I've been raising and releasing Monarch butterflies when in season. These butterflies can actually be purchased online as already hatched tiny caterpillars or you can find them yourselves under milkweed plants as eggs. If you're lucky you may find a chrysalis while you're at it. These butterflies do not take long to morph and they eat ONLY milkweed. Find an egg, take home a bag of milkweed leaves as well, and keep them in the freezer until your caterpillar is ready for a new one or when the leaf is really wilty/yellow. Monarch butterflies are a very hardy butterfly can can be lightly handled without injuring their wing scales. They migrate to southern regions of our states in the colder months, commune in areas like Mexico and Florida and then fly back home to breed and lay eggs again :) They are a facinating butterfly and I am really facinated by them. Many don't realize you can raise, enjoy and release them and how easy it is. :) Be warned Monarchs ARE poisonous because of eating milkweed so keep them out of reach of children and pets....
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pikafan2132 that's a moth calipiler not this one moth calipilers have tiny hairs on it
darkplayer478797 1 month ago
Wrote on it with... WHAT?
RocketRodder 2 months ago
i love Monarchss at school we found one with a broken wing because somebody steppd on it and my friend got it put it in a container we went to the sand pit and got heaps of flowers then we did an activity after play and we opend the container and let it out. uuuh happy days :3
Popstarox100 2 months ago
Doesn't touching a caterpillar hurt you?
Pikafan2132 3 months ago
very pretty, what do you use to write on their wings? i do the same wing but my pen is a bit thick
rummienumi 3 months ago
}3<-a butter fly teehee
Pishpish24 3 months ago
Do they get somewhat "tame" after becoming a butterfly, since they let you keep them on yout hand as larva?
AlwaysOnLookout 4 months ago in playlist Favoriter från AlwaysOnLookout
@Angelofpolymerclay Oh! cool.. I didn't know that. Thnx!
raamiiroo23456 4 months ago
@raamiiroo23456 no they dont feel their wings its just like hair
Angelofpolymerclay 4 months ago
Didn't you hurt her by writting on her wing? =/
raamiiroo23456 4 months ago