Monarch caterpillars and butterflies are the most well known and loved insects. They are like the canary in the coal mine. When they decline, despite efforts to assist them, we can guess that many other insects that we care less about but that are very important are also facing numerous ...
Monarch butterfly caterpillars(幼虫),for example, dine on milkweed. If people cut down milkweed and replace it with another plant, the butterflies will not have the food source that they need to survive. But the trouble doesn’t stop there. When insects can’t get the right plants to eat...
It’s a process, raising and releasing Monarch butterflies. We regularly turn our screened-in porch, called a lanai here in Florida, into a butterfly house to carry out this process. We place a potted milkweed plant purchased from a nursery in the lanai. If it’s been in the open any...