Monarch Watch (Habitat 🌄)
Monarch Watch is a volunteer-based citizen science organization that tracks the fall migration of the monarch butterfly. It is self-described as "a nonprofit education, conservation, and research program based at the University of Kansas that focuses on the monarch butterfly, its habitat, and its spectacular fall migratio...
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Look who just decided to emerge!
Monarch #37
Dobs releasing a female monarch in the garden on lavender blooms.
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Checking monarch butterflies for OE protozoa.
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Fast facts about monarch butterflies!
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Daily Care Routine for Monarch Caterpillars
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Video Tutorial on how I care/raise monarchs in Ohio.
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Monarch eclosing from chrysalis.
38 min timelapse
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Six healthy monarchs released in the garden.
Monarch in Chrysalis
Notice the golden bead across the top... this is not metallic but instead a bumpy area which is made of carotenoids which reflect light in a manner thst makes it appear like gold.
This area is crucial to the monarch as it allows oxygen into the chrysalis.
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