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How to Start a Monarch Butterfly Garden that Brings Home the Butterflies…and Caterpillars

How to Start a Monarch Butterfly Garden that Brings Home the Butterflies…and Caterpillars

ByTony Gomez March 12November 16
138 Comments

How to create a butterfly garden that attracts and supports monarch butterflies and their kids…

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6 Valentine Gift Ideas for a Butterfly Lover (or Friend)

6 Valentine Gift Ideas for a Butterfly Lover (or Friend)

ByTony Gomez January 18March 14
22 Comments

Surprise a butterfly lover (or friend) this Valentine’s Day with one of these unique Valentine gift ideas. ??

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Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds Part 2: Prepare Your Containers

Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds Part 2: Prepare Your Containers

ByTony Gomez January 11December 18
111 Comments

11 Easy Steps for Winter Sowing Milkweed Seeds❓??

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Twelve Days of Butterflies-Butterfly Gift Ideas for 2019

Twelve Days of Butterflies-Butterfly Gift Ideas for 2019

ByTony Gomez November 2February 27
383 Comments

Twelve Days of Butterflies 2019- Unique Butterfly Gift Ideas to make a butterfly lover’s ❤️ flutter with joy

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Grow Potted Trees as Butterfly Host Plants

Grow Potted Trees as Butterfly Host Plants

ByTony Gomez October 26October 31
8 Comments

Think your yard or garden is too small to plant host trees for caterpillars? Think ‘inside’ the box…

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How to Successfully Overwinter a Swallowtail Chrysalis

How to Successfully Overwinter a Swallowtail Chrysalis

ByTony Gomez October 19September 30
92 Comments

Not sure how to keep your swallowtail chrysalises safe over winter? This method has worked really well for us, and could work for your overwintering swallowtails too…

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Where to look for a Monarch Chrysalis in the Butterfly Garden?

Where to look for a Monarch Chrysalis in the Butterfly Garden?

ByTony Gomez September 21February 27
108 Comments

50 places to find a Monarch Chrysalis in your Butterfly Garden

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Raising Hope for the 2019 Monarch Migration- Raise The Migration 7 Results

Raising Hope for the 2019 Monarch Migration- Raise The Migration 7 Results

ByTony Gomez September 14September 14
274 Comments

Raising Hope for the Monarch Migration- Raise The Migration 2019 Results

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Release Butterflies for Fall’s ? Annual Monarch Migration

Release Butterflies for Fall’s ? Annual Monarch Migration

ByTony Gomez September 11September 9
328 Comments

How To Safely Release Monarch Butterflies for the Great Fall Migration- Raise the Migration

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Hatching Butterflies…a Monarch Emerges from its Chrysalis!

Hatching Butterflies…a Monarch Emerges from its Chrysalis!

ByTony Gomez September 7September 4
105 Comments

Eclose Encounters of the Monarch Kind: When a butterfly emerges from the chrysalis!

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Monarch Chrysalis Problems, Solutions, and Normal Development

Monarch Chrysalis Problems, Solutions, and Normal Development

ByTony Gomez August 31August 29
541 Comments

This should be the simplest part of raising monarchs, but sometimes unexpected issues can arise as the caterpillar enters the 3rd stage of monarch metamorphosis. Chrysalis Problems + Surprising Solutions…

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12 Monarch Diseases, Parasites, and Caterpillar Killers ?☠️

12 Monarch Diseases, Parasites, and Caterpillar Killers ?☠️

ByTony Gomez August 28August 25
438 Comments

Raising healthy butterflies relies on using simple raising techniques that promote monarch health and will prevent monarch diseases from occurring in the first place. The sad truth is, once your monarch butterflies are sick, it’s already too late to save them…

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