Discover the Wonder of Monarchs

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 "Don't let the migration end! Click here to join our Facebook Group and learn how to prep your yard for their return in April 2027."

It's illegal to touch monarchs in CA, and illegal to release in Ct. 

B) We considered existing research on the benefits and costs of captive-breeding, rearing, disease, citizen science, and environmental education to determine what level of captive-rearing would qualify as large-scale rearing and have the potential to negatively impact monarch populations.

C) Our analysis concluded that that the overall impact of collecting, possessing, captively rearing, releasing, and selling fewer than 250 individual monarchs at one location or facility (e.g., home, botanical garden, school, or business) is not expected to negatively affect conservation and recovery efforts for the monarch butterfly. If handling greater than 250 monarchs in a given year, you will need to apply for a permit from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

OFF-SEASON PREP: THE 100+ MONARCH CHALLENGE GEAR CHECKLIST To participate in our researcher-approved indoor protective rearing network this spring, you will need your gear prepped and ready before April. Use our official tracking links below to secure the exact equipment our community recommends (a small portion of your purchase supports our free educational movement!):

• The Enclosure: 2 Restcloud Pop-Up Mesh Habitats (2'x2'x3' size)      Our organization receives 90 cents per hatchery sold
  📷 Get them on Amazon here:    https://link.amazon/B0bizO2YJ
• The Parasite Check: 1 Pocket Mini-Microscope (60x magnification)  Watch  a short 7 minute video  https://butterfly-lady.com/what-is-oe/  We check the Female monarch before we introduce her to the enclosures above  Get it here: https://link.amazon/B058wu53P  Our organization receives 40 cents on each microscope sold.

     Butterfly Net:  Get it here:  https://link.amazon/B09YQFasY

our organization receives 40 cents for each net sold

6 foot long Folding table:  Get your table here: https://link.amazon/B09f1iIXs     Our organization receives about $1.50  per table sold .

Optional Plant Light to put on top of your indoor hatchery if you don't have a bright window with a table to set your hatcheries.  These lights fit perfectly on the top of the 2x2x3' Restcloud   popup mesh habitat linked above. We put the hatcheries in a spare bedroom on a bed on  the collapsed table linked above https://www.homedepot.com/p/Feit-Electric-2-ft-32-Watt-White-LED-3-Adjustable-Spectrum-Linkable-Plant-Grow-Light-Fixture-GLP24ADJS-32W-LED/306744759

This item is available at Home Depot. Our organization doesn't  receive any commission from the sale of these lights. 

As an Amazon Associate, we earn a token amount from qualifying purchases This helps pay for this website and other expenses we have to maintain the largest monarch conservation organization in North America with over 2,000,000 affilliated members. 

The approved method we use to protective raise monarchs starting rearing in May, June, up to July 15th takes approximately 15 minutes  of involvement every few days  for  30 days to complete. The monarchs will move through  their development stages on their own as long as you supply them with  milkweed stems as described  in the videos below. We ask you not to START  raising monarchs  after July 15th so the fourth "migration to Mexico" generation of monarchs develop in the wild to assure they have all the unique traits needed to survive the long trip. 

"Please Join Our Facebook group "How To Raise Monarch Butterflies"

In Canada you can raise up to 60 monarchs per season

with permit

We promote  American Beauties Native Plants !  If you're looking to purchase native stock plants for your garden and propagation, these are great perennial plants that can be bought at over 1000 garden centers and on Amazon.  

Craig Oveson, AKA CraigTheButterflyman.com , is a well known monarch butterfly and pollinator scientist, conservationist, and educator. At the www.CraigtheButterflyMan.com website-Ebook , we offer programs that you can be part of that will teach you how you can help increase monarch and pollinator populations..  This website-EBook, these programs, and our educational "groups",  are free of charge. Depending on how involved you want to be in our cause and movement, you may want to purchase some of the supplies we recommend on this website for you to use , WE DO NOT SHARE IN ANY PROFITS FROM THESE PRODUCTS, ou to use , although it only takes things you probably already have around your house to participate in some of our programs. 

Restoring the monarch butterfly migration and other pollinator populations  would be as easy as banning the use of most pesticides and herbicides like glyphosate that's found in Round Up and other brands. Our government has the power to ban them. We should help, although our landscapes will start to recover as soon as the use of these products is banned Of course, we would have a more healthy food supply  and many more monarchs and pollinators to enjoy.

Our current United States administration has the ability to ban these products. The new administration has made it clear they will ban these chemicals that are unsafe for us and our wildlife. Please watch the video here to find out more:

 https://youtu.be/AUXozL5KU4o?si=zUsadOmEx1T4Z91k