The life-cycle of a monarch butterfly.
I have to thank Michelle of Dogkisses’s Blog for alerting me to this short, but beautiful video from the National Geographic series on Great Migrations that Michelle recent featured. And the critical point that she mentioned,
It’s almost time to start thinking about what you might plant in your garden. I encourage you to plant a few larval food plants so that you may get to watch a butterfly happen in your own backyard.
So do watch the video below and be enthralled as so many others have.
Now go to the Monarch Butterfly USA website and check out what you can do to ensure this great migration goes on for evermore.
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Hi Paul, Good Sunday to you! Thanks for mentioning Dogkisses’s blog.
I wish i lived where I could have my own butterfly garden. Too many trees around here, but I’m always surprised when they visit my yard even so. I’m sure the Swallowtails use the trees to lay their eggs. I used to have a business planting butterfly gardens, which I may have told you about before, but I still remember how energizing and rewarding that job was.
Also, living in Arizona, do the butterflies visit you? I helped edit a video series in the mid-nineties about attracting butterflies and hummingbirds. The man I worked for traveled the world chasing butterflies and he had a home in Arizona. The clips I saw from there were truly amazing.
Peace and Blessings,
Michelle.
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And a very good day to you, Michelle. We live up at 5,000 ft in a very dry climate, especially this year where we are already 3 in below average rainfall for the year to date. So flowering plants are not really viable unless one is prepared to water them for several months. As our water comes from a well and who knows how the aquifer is standing up we are being fairly cautious about what we plant. First priority this year is to grow as many vegetables as we can. But we do have a bird feeder running 24 x 7! Once again, thanks for calling by, take care, Paul
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