If you’re here, you’re probably a nature lover, like me. Or maybe you want to convince someone else to be one. This is a great place to start.
The purpose of this site is to educate, and to promote conservation. The information you need will be listed on my Resource page. When the Junior Crusader pages are complete, you will have a roadmap of activities to help save the monarch, together with levels of achievement and rewards.
Raising monarch butterflies is an excellent Introduction to Nature project for families, classrooms and youth groups. It starts with a hunt for caterpillars, and ends with the release of a miracle less than a month later. All sorts of discoveries abound along the way, while happy memories of friends and family expeditions are created.
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The Monarch Butterfly Crusader There are a few days left during which you can participate in the bio blitz. This is a perfect citizen scientist project for the family, and you will be contributing to the information scientists use to conserve monarchs and other pollinators.
With every year, fewer and fewer monarchs are returning north in the spring, as their journey home has grown increasingly treacherous. One Montreal initiative, called Mission Monarch, is tracking this decline very closely — and “citizen scientists” are helping out.
Each year, thousands of hobbyists and educators across North America collect monarch eggs or caterpillars from the wild to raise indoors and patiently wait for butterflies to emerge. Raising monarch butterflies indoors has become an increasingly popular activity that can have numerous benefits.
The Monarch Butterfly Crusader This morning I watched a monarch lay eggs on dog strangling vine. I know that a monarch cannot survive on it, but will it take a bite? Many bites, until it dies from starvation?
The Monarch Butterfly Crusader When this happens, it's usually because the owner only shared it with a small group of people, changed who can see it or it's been deleted.
If you’re here, you’re probably a nature lover, like me. Or maybe you want to convince someone else to be one. This is a great place to start.