MONARCH BUTTERFLY

MUNCHIMONSTER MONARCH CLUB

JOIN KIDS ACROSS AMERICA & FEED THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY. Their food source is disappearing but anyone can help. Plant their favorite food, Milkweed! Make your block a Monarch block. Line it with Milkweed & they WILL come!

MUNCHIMONSTER MONARCH CLUB-  Earn the MUNCHI-MONARCH POLLINATOR Award:
1- Plant Milkweed 2- learn about the monarch life cycle 3- learn about monarch migration 4- learn how the monarch smells, tastes, sees, and drinks. Then you may download the AWARD CERTIFICATE & sign it!

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START A MONARCH CLUB IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD: Monarchs are not only miraculous, magical and beautiful, but they are also necessary for our food. Monarchs, like bees, pollinate crops. Due to over-development and pesticides we are losing the habitat that sustains the Monarchs. MONARCHS ARE AN ENDANGERED SPECIES. In 1996 over-wintering Monarchs in Mexico covered approx 45 acres of forest. Today is is less than 2 acres… a little over the size of a football field.

YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE Simply. 1- Plant milkweed. 2- Water your milkweed. 3- Never use any pesticide on your milkweed. (Monarchs get sick from pesticides).  4- Make a ‘Monarch Habitat’ sign & put it next to your milkweed.

PICKY EATERS: Monarchs ONLY lay eggs on milkweed & the caterpillars ONLY eat milkweed leaves.

FACTS Once a caterpillar has eaten all it needs from the milkweed it will crawl away from the plant and look for a suitable spot in which to pupate. In this spot he/she will perform the miracle of rearranging itself from a larva, to crysalis/pupa, to a winged butterfly. ( Do not touch or move the pupa ). Monarchs live approx two weeks, unless they are migrating. They have personalities like any other creature!

EYE WITNESS Last month I saw the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly up close! I named my new friend George The 5th ( a female). Usually it takes 9-14 days to emerge, but George gave me a scare and did not come out until day 17! She emerged in the afternoon so she did not fly until the next day.                               SEEDS                                                                                     CERTIFICATE

                 CHECK OUT THIS HUGE, BEAUTIFUL BUTTERFLY & GIGANTIC, RARE, MOTH, and the FUZZY FELLOW BELOW. QUITE UNNOTICABLE UNTIL HE SPREADS HIS WINGS!