Petee Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 This summer the BUDS Gardeners will be carrying out a project to encourage local Butterfly lovers to collect Monarch eggs and raise them safely to maturity when they can be released. We're hoping to develop a program where people who cannot help, can watch! let us know if you would like to be involved in anything from egg hunting and collecting, to raising them, to being part of a series of releases. I will add info here as we develop it. This list is a series of U Tubes that are great! Raising Monarchs from eggs Part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_I5F4AHyQHs Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehq__6MQP3w Part 3 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJU8-FpGI78 Part 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84Ha_TjUpEk Part 5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-E71kVxFtI Grow a Butterfly Garden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u96-EblEUec UstaParty and sapphire 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UstaParty Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I think I might be interested in this. Depends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted March 29, 2015 Author Share Posted March 29, 2015 We will be setting up a location in which they will be raised to the Chrysalis stage, then possibly be taken to a public area where people can watch them emerge. It all depends on whether we find the eggs to begin with. If people want to hunt eggs for us to care for then they will go on the Monarch Donors list. If that egg hatches and we are able to release it alive and well that will be noted as well. Volunteers are welcome to help in different ways. You can collect eggs, foster the different stages of instars, prepare the Chrylasides for the resting time and be on hand to release the butterflies as they emerge. There will be daily food collection and some cleanup of the butterfly house/tent. Training will be provided. Let us know if you are interested. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted April 3, 2015 Author Share Posted April 3, 2015 Found a great info site: https://www.learner.org/jnorth/tm/monarch/conservation_news.html#Monsanto Right now the Monarch have just reached Texas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 5, 2016 Author Share Posted May 5, 2016 One of our females was found in El Rosario, Mexico on February 25, 2016. Hopefully she was able to survive long enough to lay eggs and get a generation headed back to Pennsylvania this summer. Bon 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Did you put a chip in them?? Band them somehow? Please tell .. Vader 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sanibel Posted May 5, 2016 Share Posted May 5, 2016 Bon, whenI did this with my kids, I had a little kit with tiny stickers that were placed in a certain spot under the wing. When found, the number could be entered into a database to share migration information. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted May 6, 2016 Share Posted May 6, 2016 Wont the sticker come off the wing? Thanks for sharing, I'm going to have to do research on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 You send for stickers (tiny round numbered paper tags) from Monarch Watch. They are not really expensive but if you do a lot of Monarchs it can add up. I pick up the butterfly by holding both wings together in the forefingers of my left hand, and lay it down on a paper towel with the body to the right. The sticker is already picked off of the waxed paper card on the very edge of tweezers and waiting. We record the sex of the butterfly, gently press the tag onto a specified part of the wing and hold it for a couple of seconds. That's it. They are then placed into a transportation carrier and taken to Charlie's Alternators where we release them at a set time so the public can be there to hold them and watch them take off for Mexico. It's more stirring than one would imagine. We could count on some of the burly mechanics to stop up to see them almost every day, and they even got to see them emerge from the chrysalis when we finally started keeping them in the screen tent and tagging them right there on the spot. It's something you look forward to doing again once you've done it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 6, 2016 Author Share Posted May 6, 2016 Anyone who wants to be part of the program this year can let me know. dyna99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dyna99 Posted May 9, 2016 Share Posted May 9, 2016 It sounds like something I would love to do! And I think my daughter would love to too!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 Just let me know at cshenkle@verizon.net. I will put you on the list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 How can you tell what sex they are?? I never paid attention to the body, only the wings!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 They are almost identical except that the male has two spots on his wings that the females do not. Also, the female is slightly darker with heavier veins. Spygirl06, dyna99 and Bon 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bon Posted May 10, 2016 Share Posted May 10, 2016 I learned something today!! dyna99 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petee Posted May 10, 2016 Author Share Posted May 10, 2016 Fantasmagorical! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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