Butterfly Diaries - Introduction

So for the foreseeable future Morgan's blog will be dedicated to our venture and adventure in creating a butterfly garden and coming to the decision that we need to rear butterflies inside.

In the beginning I thought - "Easy - plant some milkweed, have pollinators (cone flower, thistle) and voile...Monarchs!

Our Swamp Milkweed is taller than Morgan!

 Yeah...not that easy.

I now find myself learning at an exponential rate and teaching Morgan just as fast. We have been introduced to the concept that many University-based projects like The Monarch Lab (http://monarchlab.org/) 

and Monarch Joint Venture (http://monarchjointventure.org/)

out of Minneapolis call Citizen Scientists. We are learning through research based organizations how to provide a Monarch friendly environment, how to find eggs and caterpillars and now how to rear them indoors.

Stay tuned for our updates