Despite the threats to monarchs' migration habitats, for us this has been the summer of the caterpillar. We've now had four caterpillars in the house - one successfully reared in June (Ken), one found recently and now in chrysallis mode, and two just found today on the very milkweed stem we'd brought home to feed # 2! They are hungry little suckers!
Lawrence is lucky to be home to Monarch Watch, a conservation and education program whose greatest annual event is the tagging in September. Next month, a quarter of a million monarchs make a pit stop at the wetlands south of town en route to Mexico. One day is specifically designated for the public to come out, attempt to net and then put ID stickers on the little guys to track their migration to Mexico. It's a sight to see entire trees plastered with orange and black "leaves".
Frighteningly, a Google Images search for "monarch watch" yields mostly photos of Prince Charles. Ick!
3 comments:
wow that sounds like a site to see. i didn't know that. it seems like they wouldn't let the public do that because it seems like you could easily injure them.
so cool that you raised one too.
Wow, that's so cool. We see lots of monarchs but few chrysalides. Years ago we had several hundred monarchs overnight in a couple of our trees. Found the Monarch Watch website with lots of great info...including tagging kits. I know the kids would love to do something like that.http://www.monarchwatch.org/index.html
Hi all. I am glad to crash in to this little corner of the turning world. If there are no protests I would like to join in on the fun.
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