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THIS WEBSITE IS BEST VIEWED ON A LAPTOP> PLEASE READ THIS 'HOME' PAGE FIRST>WELCOME TO MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION
THIS WEBSITE IS BEST VIEWED ON A LAPTOP> PLEASE READ THIS 'HOME' PAGE FIRST>WELCOME TO MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION
WELCOME !
OUR ORGANIZATION CAUSE AND MOVEMENT IS GROWING RAPIDLY AND OVER 800,000 MEMBERS
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Craig Oveson, AKA CraigTheButterflyman.com , is a well known monarch butterfly and pollinator scientist, conservationist, and educator. At this www.CraigtheButterflyMan.com website-Ebook , we offer programs that you can be part of that will teach you how to become a monarch butterfly and pollinator conservationist. You will learn 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 you to use, although it only takes things you probably already have around your house to participate in some of our programs.
Please share this website with all of your friends on Facebook and your email list. Our monarchs need everyones help and this website will teach them how.
Starting to restore 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 administration has the power to ban them with the stroke of a pen without Congress involvement. Our landscapes and insect populations 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 with the stroke of a pen . This new administration has made it clear they would 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
Saving and increasing the monarch migration can be an enjoyable, simple process for a few hours, once a year, from your home. The more people that perform this easy process, once a year, the more monarchs you will see. PLEASE WATCH THE INTRODUCTORY VIDEOS BELOW AND THEN READ ON !
4) Check out our 'leaders Program' You can have one of these in your community linked here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders-program
1) www.CraigTheButterflyman.com and Mary talk about monarchs and their incredible migration (5 min)
2) One minute video demonstrating the development stages of a monarch butterfly
5) Check out our 'leaders Program' You can have one of these in your town. Enjoy them before you release them !https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders-program https://www.quictents.com/products/25-x10-x7-large-greenhouse?ref=pzfcpaeo&variant=42040383340784
6) Check out this one minute video> We release 750 monarchs in front of 5000 monarch lovers
7) Check out this great video taken at a monarch festival in Windsor, Ontario, Canada
8) This entertaining monarch migration movie teaches you everything you want to know about the incredible monarch migration. Top monarch scientist featured are Dr. Lincoln Brower, Dr. Chip Taylor, Dr. Bill Calvert, and Don Davis. GOOGLE their name and monarch butterflies. This video starts out showing the development stages of monarchs After watching the documentary please read below and study the entire drop down menu above and learn how you can easily help increase the migration
Our channel has over 300 videos starting with recent videos of our educational live butterfly exhibit that teaches you how to protect monarch eggs from predators until they are adults and released to save and increase the monarch migration population.
https://www.youtube.com/@craigthebutterflyman4387/videos
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9) WE ARE 100's OF 1000's OF MONARCH BUTTERFLY CITIZEN SCIENTISTS, CONSERVATIONISTS, AND EDUCATORS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA TEACHING OTHER AMERICANS HOW THEY CAN BE PART OF OUR NOBLE AND NECESSARY CAUSE AND MOVEMENT TO
SAVE THE INCREDIBLE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION.
10) WE HAVE DOZENS OF MONARCH CONSERVATION GROUPS WHERE YOU CAN SEE 1000's OF CONSERVATIONISTS ACROSS NORTH AMERICA, RIGHT NOW, DURING THEIR ACTIVITIES POSTING, ANSWERING QUESTIONS, AND EDUCATING TO HELP YOU BECOME INVOLVED IN OUR GREAT ADVENTURE.
11) We don't charge any membership dues or for answering the questions you have or for anything. We just want to help you become the best monarch and pollinator conservationist you want to be.
Our organizations groups are linked here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/groups
PLEASE
READ ON !!!
12) Dr Lincoln Brower, the Xerces Sociey, Center for Food Safety, and Center for Biological Diversity Petitioned the U S Fish And Wildlife Service to modify the original petition they filed to list the monarch butterfly as threatened by asking that households should raise and release up to 100 monarchs for conservation and education (60 in Canada) . The link to that petition modification request is here https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8ef0052a-9ec6-4eb5-8373-35e15f18d1e4/downloads/monarch-esa-petition-4d-rule_61731%20(1).pdf?ver=1705591291171
13) FIRST, BEFORE YOU STUDY THIS WEBSITE, FOLLOW WHAT WE ASK EVERYONE TO DO BY STUDYING AND THEN POSTING THE ENTIRE TEXT BELOW (Including bullet points 13-16) EVERYWHERE TO INSPIRE OTHER CITIZENS TO BECOME INVOLVED IN OUR NOBLE CAUSE AND MOVEMENT TO SAVE AND
INCREASE THE SPECTACULAR MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION !
14) WELCOME !!! I'm the founder and administrator of this monarch conservation group and our fast growing 800,000+ member organization of Facebook groups. www.CraigTheButterflyman.com. Thank you for becoming a monarch butterfly conservationist !!! Members and new members, thank you for joining the largest monarch conservationist organization in North America. To help continue to increase our membership and help increase the monarch migration, please share this post with all of your Facebook friends and copy and paste the entire text with your email list.
16) Everyone loves monarch butterflies and most people will help if they know how. Have Fun !!!! PLEASE CLICK ON THE LINK BELOW TO READ AND COPY THE ENTIRE TEXT https://www.facebook.com/.../permalink/3644760149105960/ Please include everything above including this sentence in your post when you share it everywhere.
17) AFTER COPYING AND POSTING THE ABOVE TEXT EVERYWHERE INCLUDING THE LINK AT THE END, YOU WILL INVOLVE 100'S MAYBE 1000'S OF NEW MONARCH CONSERVATIONISTS IN OUR NOBLE AND NECESSARY CAUSE. ALL WE ASK IS YOU LEAVE THE BOOK AND DOCUMENT THE WAY IT IS THANK YOU..
PLEASE CONTINUE STUDYING THE WEBSITE BELOW
AND ALL OF THE MENU DROP DOWN SUBJECTS
18) LEARN WHAT WE DO AND TEACH AND TEACH OTHERS TO DO AND TEACH WHAT WE DO AND TEACH BY SHARING THIS WEBSITE ONCE YOU STUDY IT. NETWORKING IS THE BEST WAY TO GET OTHERS INVOLVED. YOU WILL NEVER KNOW WHO WILL HELP UNLESS YOU ASK !
19) SHARING THIS WEBSITE IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU CAN DO TO ENCOURAGE OTHER CITIZENS TO GET INVOLVED IN MONARCH CONSERVATION. THOUSANDS OF NEW MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATIONIST HAVE BECOME INVOLVED IN OUR NOBLE AND NECESSARY CAUSE ALREADY THIS SEASON BY RECEIVING THE LINK TO TO THIS WEBSITE BY ANOTHER MONARCH CONSERVATIONIST AND READING WHAT IT TEACHES.
20) REMEMBER, NONE OF US CHARGE ANYONE FOR ANYTHING WE DO AND TEACH ON THIS WEBSITE. WE DO WHAT WE DO AND TEACH OTHERS TO DO AND TEACH BECAUSE WE WANT TO RESTORE THE BEAUTY OF OUR LANDSCAPES IN NORTH AMERICA AND INCREASE THE BEAUTIFUL MONARCH MIGRATION .
21) WE CAN HAVE MORE MONARCH BUTTERFLIES AND POLLINATORS IN OUR LIVES.
WE NEED EVERYONE INVOLVED IN OUR CAUSE AND MOVEMENT
EVERYONE CAN HELP ON SOME LEVEL
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22) THE TABLE OF CONTENTS FOR THIS WEBSITE AND E-BOOK IS BELOW
23) Our YouTube channel has over 300 videos starting with recent videos teaching how to protect monarch eggs from predators until they are adults and released to save and increase the monarch migration population.
https://www.youtube.com/@craigthebutterflyman4387/videos
24) CHAPTER 1: The page you're on includes great videos about monarch conservation and scientific studies that support what we do and teach concerning the protective rearing of monarchs from eggs through their vulnerable stages of development and releasing them to increase the migration population. It's best to read this entire "HOME" page first. www.CraigTheMonarchButterflyman.com
25) CHAPTER 2: Includes the founders and "LEADERS" of large monarch conservation groups and the groups they founded and administrate along with accomplishments of these leaders. Just click on the "FACEBOOK GROUP "button below their names to view their groups and join them if you like. That chapter and page is linked here:
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders
26) CHAPTER 3: linked here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/groups Featured are large Facebook monarch conservation groups you can join for free and ask questions for free RIGHT NOW, 7 days a week. .
27) If you open the links to these featured groups you can find out who founded and administrates these groups and sometimes find what city they are in on their personal profiles. If they are close to where you live you can contact them and they can help you get started rearing monarchs and planting pollinator habitat and you can help each other build a "community" organization in your town by gathering emails and doing the "LEADERS PROGRAM" explained on a different page and chapter below.
28) You can also post to the large featured groups timelines what city and state you're in and you would like to find someone close to you to help you get started by communicating on FACEBOOKS Private Messenger. If the 2 of you communicate well you may agree to meet in person. You can talk about having public events in your area like this one linked here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders-program
29) CHAPTER 4: We concentrates on scientist studied and approved methods of protective rearing any number of healthy monarchs up to 100 that are capable of participating in the monarch migration and reproducing monarchs that wouldn't have existed without us protecting the previous generation. We teach you how to protect the vulnerable stages of monarchs until they are adult butterflies and release them so they can
fly away from danger and pollinate, reproduce, and add monarchs to the migration.
30) WE TEACH YOU HOW TO PROTECT THE VULNERABLE EARLY STAGES OF THE MONARCHS DEVELOPMENT EARLY IN THE MIGRATION SEASON STARTING PROTECTING EGGS NO LATER THAN JULY 15th IF POSSIBLE SO THE GENERATION THAT NEEDS TO MIGRATE TO MEXICO DEVELOPS IN THE WILD SO THEY HAVE ALL THE TRAITS REQUIRED TO MAKE THE TRIP TO MEXICO, OVERWINTER, AND RETURN TO TEXAS TO LAY EGGS TO START THE MIGRATION ALL OVER AGAIN
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1
31) CHAPTER 5: Has lots more videos that are both entertaining and educational showing monarch conservation methods and techniques
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/videos
32) CHAPTER 6: BECOME A MONARCH CONSERVATION LEADER IN YOUR COMMUNITY ! Anyone can do it.
Check out our 'LEADERS PROGRAM' here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders-program
The "LEADERS PROGRAM" is the key to building an organization of monarch conservationist in your community and should be the goal of every monarch butterfly conservationist
This is the best educational exhibit we use for the leaders program
https://www.quictents.com/products/25-x10-x7-large-greenhouse?ref=pzfcpaeo&variant=42040383340784
33) CHAPTER 7: Under the MORE on the menu you can read an in depth description on how we will restore the monarch butterfly migraion. You can instantly get your questions answered by posting the question to any of the Facebook monarch butterfly conservation groups timeline right now. If you would like to get an email newsletter in your inbox once in a while telling you about events going on in monarchy. Put your email in the contact us box and check the box to receive emails.
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/contact
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34) There's a lot left to learn in this CHAPTER 1 page you're on now. You may not know about why we are protective rearing, we will explain below.
35) WE HAVE CHOSEN THIS PAGE TO LINK PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AND STUDIES THAT SUPPORT WHAT WE PRACTICE AND TEACH ON THIS WEBSITE: PLEASE READ ON.
36) F YOU WANT TO BE A SERIOUS MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATIONIST AND EDUCATOR YOU WILL NEED TO STUDY THESE LINKS BELOW AND OPEN ALL THE REFERENCES IN THESE RESEARCH STUDIES SO YOU CAN STUDY THIS RESEARCH.
37) IF YOU"RE AN EXPERIENCED MONARCH CONSERVATIONIST AND HAVE PRACTICED PROTECTED REARING MONARCH BUTTERFLIES AND STUDIED THIS PAGE
38) THIS LINK WILL TAKE YOU TO THE PAGE ON THIS WEBSITE THAT WILL TEACH YOU HOW TO USE THE MOST NATURAL METHOD
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1
39) It has been determined by the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service that the monarch butterfly population and it's spectacular migration occurring yearly involving the United States, Canada, and Mexico is threatened and endangered. 95+% of all monarch eggs, caterpillars, and chrysalis are consumed by increasing numbers of natural and unnatural predators before they become butterflies and are able to fly away and protect themselves.
40) THIS WEBSITE IS DESIGNED TO BE EDUCATIONAL
PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME TO READ AND STUDY THE TEXT AND OPEN AND STUDY THE LINKS
41) YOU CAN HELP MONARCH BUTTERFLIES IN 2 WAYS;
42) 1) PLANT THE PLANTS THEY NEED TO LIVE AND THRIVE ON
43) 2) WE TEACH YOU HOW TO PROTECT THE VULNERABLE EARLY STAGES OF THE MONARCHS DEVELOPMENT EARLY IN THE MIGRATION SEASON STARTING PROTECTING EGGS NO LATER THAN JULY 15th IF POSSIBLE SO THE GENERATION THAT NEEDS TO MIGRATE TO MEXICO DEVELOPS IN THE WILD SO THEY HAVE ALL THE TRAITS REQUIRED TO MAKE THE TRIP TO MEXICO, OVERWINTER, AND RETURN TO TEXAS TO LAY EGGS TO START THE MIGRATION ALL OVER AGAIN
44) WE SEPARATE MONARCHS FROM PREDATORS INDOORS IN A NETTED POP UP HATCHERY HABITAT ON A TABLE NEAR A WINDOW UNTIL THEY ARE ADULT BUTTERFLIES AND WE CHECK THEM FOR DISEASE, SO THEY CAN FLY AWAY FROM PREDATORS USING THIS PROTOCOL..
http://butterfly-lady.com/what-is-oe/
45) IN THE WILD, AFTER THEY ARE RELEASED, THEY REPRODUCE AND CREATE MORE MONARCHS THAT WOULDN'T HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT OUR HELP THEREFORE INCREASING THE MONARCH MIGRATION POPULATION.
46) PLEASE TAKE YOUR TIME AND READ THIS "HOME" PAGE AND THE OTHER PAGES LINKED ABOVE: "LEADERS", "GROUPS/GALLERY", "RAISE MONARCHS", "LEADERS PROGRAM" "VIDEOS" "CONTACT". PLEASE OPEN ALL THE LINKS AND STUDY THEM.
47) YOU WILL BE A WELL EDUCATED MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATIONIST.
48) YOU WILL KNOW HOW TO HELP YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY GET INVOLVED THROUGH SHARING THIS WEBSITE WITH THEM AND DISCUSSING THE CONTENT AND WORKING TOGETHER WITH THEM TO DO THE THINGS TAUGHT HERE THAT WILL HELP US ALL HAVE A MORE BEAUTIFUL LANDSCAPE WITH MORE MONARCHS AND POLLINATORS TO ENJOY .
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49) Many monarch butterfly scientists have contributed to the following research and study that shows lack of milkweed on the landscape of the monarchs summer breeding grounds is not the main reason the monarchs eastern range migration in North America is declining.
https://nsojournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/oik.03196
50) The following is a link to an article in Entomolgy today that explains why top monarch scientists believe milkweed is not the determining factor in the monarch migration decline.
51) The Grandfather Of Monarch Butterfly Conservation, Educator, and Scientist Dr. Lincoln Brower (SEARCH: Lincoln Brower on WIKI) talks about how he wants citizens to raise up to 100 monarchs a year for conservation and education. Click Here: https://texasbutterflyranch.com/2015/02/16/q-a-dr-lincoln-brower-talks-ethics-endangered-species-milkweed-and-monarchs
52) Dr Lincoln Brower, the Xerces Sociey, Center for Food Safety, and Center for Biological Diversity Petitioned the U S Fish And Wildlife Service to modify the original petition to list the monarch butterfly as threatened by asking that households should raise up to 100 monarchs for conservation and education . The link to that petition modification request is here https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/8ef0052a-9ec6-4eb5-8373-35e15f18d1e4/downloads/monarch-esa-petition-4d-rule_61731%20(1).pdf?ver=1705591291171
53) Below is the abstract of a study by top rated monarch butterfly scientist Dr David James and his wife Tanya supporting protecting monarch eggs until they are adult butterflies and releasing them to help increase the spectacular monarch migration
54) The study is referenced and acclaimed in the following publication
https://ucanr.edu/blogs/blogcore/postdetail.cfm?postnum=27559
The complete study is linked here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vRWl-WILi0ndaQOJOkHKcg_sDZuAhwMDRAz0YiwbezLEosgzjXCAxtKu0hRghAhEZnx1qluGywcgP07/pub?fbclid=IwAR1LZdwGqvA-klgcCVpk3X-Kjg--Oc9BBornMhTeGBdvv8irCySX6xkZzPU
55) ABSTRACT for the above study: The fall migration of Monarch butterflies (Danaus plexippus) in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) was studied in an unfunded citizen science project during 2012–16 by tagging 13778 reared and 875 wild Monarchs. More than a third of these Monarchs were reared by inmates of the Washington State Penitentiary (WSP) in Walla Walla, Washington. Sixty (0.41 %) tagged Monarchs were recovered from distances greater than 10 km (mean: 792.9 ± 48.0 km) with most found in California, SSW of release points. One WSP-reared Monarch was found 724 km to the SE in Utah. Monarchs tagged in Oregon flew SSE to California. No Idaho-tagged Monarchs were found in California but two were recovered at locations due south. No wild tagged Monarchs from Washington, Oregon or Idaho were recovered. Monarchs from Washington and Oregon were found during October-February at 24 coastal California overwintering sites spanning 515 km from Bolinas to Carpinteria. A single wild spring Monarch tagged in May in northern California was recovered 35 days later and 707 km ENE in Twin Falls, Idaho. This study provides compelling evidence that many Monarchs in southern and central parts of Washington and Oregon migrate south in the fall to overwintering sites along the California coast. It also provides some evidence for southerly and south-easterly vectoring of migrating Monarchs from eastern Washington and Idaho, indicating the possibility of migration to Arizona or Mexico overwintering sites. In addition to improving our understanding of Monarch migration in the PNW, this study also contributed to conservation by adding nearly 14000 butterflies to the population. The incredible involvement of incarcerated and non-incarcerated citizen scientists generated much community and media interest which in turn led to greater involvement by citizens. Increased awareness of Monarchs, their biology and conservation in the PNW has been an unexpected but important spin-off of this study.
56) THIS IS A PEER REVIEWED SCIENTIFIC STUDY AND RESEARCH DEMONSTRATING NATURAL AND UNNATURAL PREDATORS ARE THE NUMBER ONE KILLER OF MONARCHS KILLING OVER 95%+ WHILE THEY ARE DEVELOPING THROUGH THEIR VULNERABLE EARLY STAGES UNTIL THEY ARE ADULTS AND CAN FLY AWAY FROM DANGER.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-50737-5
57) NATURAL MONARCH BUTTERFLY PREDATORS INCLUDING ANTS, WASPS, AND SPIDERS ARE ALSO NECESSARY IN THE WILDLIFE FOOD CHAIN.
58) THE MORE MONARCHS WE PROTECT AND RELEASE THE MORE THE ENTIRE WILDLIFE FOOD CHAIN BENEFITS
59) THE IMPORTED INVASIVE RED FIRE ANT HAS BEEN STUDIED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO AND PROVEN TO CONSUME 87% OF THE VULNERABLE EARLY DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF
MONARCH BUTTERFLIES. LEARN ABOUT THESE UNNATURAL PREDATORS HERE: https://youtu.be/R7pEAUUqmM0?si=EofO6CvLn51w_TGk
60) IMPORTED INVASIVE RED FIRE ANTS ARE PRESENT AND ACTIVE IN MOST OF THE STATE OF TEXAS, ALL OF THE SOUTHERN STATES, AND CALIFORNIA. WHEN MONARCHS RETURN FROM MEXICO IN THE SPRING AND LAY EGGS. THESE FIRE ANTS ARE PRESENT THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH AND CALIFORNIA.
https://youtu.be/8DmnM_oFNx8?si=1YEgv6LJi2ydh91z
61) THESE FIRE ANTS CAN"T SURVIVE IN CLIMATES WHERE THERE ARE EXTENDED FREEZES ! THIS IS WHY WE PROTECT EGGS WHERE THERE ARE LONG PERIODS OF FREEZING TEMPERATURES.
62) WE INTERVENE AND TAKE MONARCH EGGS OUT OF THE WILDLIFE FOOD CHAIN AND PROTECT THEM FROM THESE PREDATORS INDOORS DURING THEIR EARLY VULNERABLE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT UNTIL WE RELEASE THEM BACK INTO THE WILD AS ADULT BUTTERFLIES THAT WOULDN'T HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT OUR HELP PROTECTING THEM.
63) THE DEVELOPMENT STAGES OF "THEIR" OFFSPRING WILL DEVELOP IN THE WILD , SOME OF THEM WILL FEED THE WILDLIFE FOOD CHAIN ,AND SOME WILL BECOME ADULT BUTTERFLIES INCREASING THE MIGRATION WITH EVEN MORE BUTTERFLIES THAT WOULDN'T HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT US HELPING THEIR PREVIOUS GENERATION SURVIVE.
64) OUR EFFORTS HAVE HELPED MONARCHS CONTINUE TO MULTIPLY IN THE WILD !!!
65) There have been discussions about whether healthy monarchs, protected from predators during their vulnerable stages of development when released, have the strength and durability to migrate to Mexico to overwinter in the mountains. The following scientific research demonstrates monarchs that develop indoors have the ability to orient towards Mexico when released, able to migrate the long distances, as well as add to the migration population.
https://academic.oup.com/conphys/article/9/1/coab032/6274228
66) THIS IS AN ALL INCLUSIVE SCIENTIFIC STUDY ON RESTORING MONARCH BUTTERFLY HABITAT
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aa7637
67) THE BUTTERFLY-LADY IS A GREAT PLACE TO GET FLOWER AND PLANT SEEDS AND MONARCH AND BUTTERFLY EDUCATION http://butterfly-lady.com/
68) IF YOU WANT TO ORDER FROM AMAZON OR PICK THEM UP FROM THE 1500 GARDEN CENTERS, AMERICAN BEAUTIES NATIVE PLANTS IS THE LARGEST NATIVE PLANT SUPPLIER EAST OF THE MISSOURI RIVER www.ABNATIVEPLANTS.COM
69) THIS IS A GREAT 30 SECOND VIDEO SHOWING RELEASING MONARCHS !!! https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowtoRaiseMonarchButterflies/permalink/3572313376350638/
70) 750 HOME REARED MONARCHS RELEASED IN FRONT OF 5000 MONARCH BUTTERFLY ENTHUSIASTS
AT THE SAN ANTONIO MONARCH BUTTERFLY AND POLLINATOR FESTIVAL
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71) OUR MISSION STATEMENT
72) WE ARE DEDICATED TO SAVING AND INCREASING THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION AND POLLINATORS IN GENERAL IN NORTH AMERICA. WHAT WE DO AND TEACH DOESN'T NEED TO COST ANYONE ANYTHING. SOME PEOPLE WILL WANT TO PURCHASE CONSERVATION ITEMS AND WE SHOW THEM WHERE TO GET THEM.
73) YOU ARE WELCOME TO JOIN 100's OF THOUSANDS OF CITIZEN SCIENTISTS IN NORTH AMERICA WHO ARE DEDICATING A COUPLE HOURS OF THEIR TIME EVERY YEAR IN THEIR HOME OR YARD TO THE CAUSE AND MOVEMENT OF CITIZENS SAVING AND INCREASING THE INCREDIBLE MIRACLE OF THE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION SO EVERYONE WILL SEE MORE MONARCHS IN THEIR YARDS AND AROUND TOWN EVERY YEAR IF YOU PARTICIPATE.
74) THIS IS THE GOOGLE SEARCH LINK FOR MONARCH BUTTERFLIES FACEBOOK GROUPS. https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=600263652&rlz=1CAHKDC_enUS1052&sxsrf=ACQVn09HY-qpntdva98PtekhTapbEI3vXA:1705862572060&q=Monarch+Butterfly+Facebook+groups&tbm=isch&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjfrpKlke-DAxXZlYkEHd3aCqUQ0pQJegQIDBAB&biw=1138&bih=489&dpr=1.2
75) THE FOUNDER AND ADMINISTRATOR OF THE FAST GROWING 28,000+ MEMBER FACEBOOK GROUP https://www.facebook.com/groups/HowtoRaiseMonarchButterflies ALONG WITH ADMINISTRATORS OF OTHER MONARCH CONSERVATION GROUPS CONTRIBUTED TO THIS INFORMATIVE MONARCH CONSERVATION WEBSITE. WWW.CraigTheButterflyman.com
76) YOU MAY WANT TO HELP MONARCHS THROUGH PLANTING THE HABITAT THEY NEED TO THRIVE ON IN YOUR YARD, ON YOUR PATIO, AND/OR EASILY INTERVENE AND PROTECT MONARCHS FROM THEIR 450+ PREDATORS OUT IN THE WILD AND BRING THEM INDOORS UNTIL THEY ARE
HEALTHY MONARCHS READY FOR RELEASE,.
77) YOU CAN WATCH THEIR VULNERABLE STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT UNTIL THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL ADULT BUTTERFLIES AND YOU CAN RELEASE THEM SO THEY CAN PROTECT THEMSELVES BY FLYING AWAY FROM DANGER OUTSIDE. THIS IS A ONE MINUTE TIME-LAPSE VIDEO SHOWING THE MONARCHS STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVm5k99PnBk
78) WHAT WE TEACH YOU DOESN'T COST ANYTHING . AS YOU SAW ABOVE. MONARCHS DEVELOP INTO ADULT BUTTERFLIES ON THEIR OWN IN THE WILD. WHAT YOU DIDN'T SEE IS OVER 95+%, ALMOST ALL OF THEM, DON"T MAKE IT FROM THAT EGG TO THAT BEAUTIFUL ADULT STAGE BECAUSE ANTS, WASPS, AND SPIDERS CONSUME THEM.
79) WE TEACH YOU TO BRING MONARCH EGGS INDOORS SO THEY WILL BE IN A CONTROLLED ENVIRONMENT WHERE THEY CAN DEVELOP THROUGH THEIR LIFE STAGES IN SAFETY WITHOUT BEING IN DANGER OF BEING CONSUMED BY THE PREDATORS WHO CONSUME THEM OUTDOORS.
80) ONCE YOU EASILY SET UP THIS SIMPLE ENVIRONMENT INDOORS ON A SMALL TABLE NEAR A WINDOW, YOU INTRODUCE THE EGGS ON MILKWEED PLANT LEAVES ON THE STEM, AND WATCH THEM DEVELOP THROUGH THEIR LIFE STAGES .YOU DON'T EVEN TOUCH THEM USING THE MOST NATURAL SCIENTIST APPROVED METHOD POSSIBLE SHOWN BELOW.
https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1
81) YOU GET TO WATCH THE MIRACLE OF THE MONARCHS METAMORPHOSIS AS THEY PROGRESS THROUGH THEIR VULNERABLE LIFE STAGES AND EMERGE AS A HEALTHY BUTTERFLY, LET THEIR WINGS DRY FOR 24 HOURS AND YOU RELEASE THEM OUTDOORS INTO NATURE SO THEY CAN FULFILL THEIR DUTY OF POLLINATING PLANTS AND REPRODUCING MORE MONARCHS IN THE WILD THAT WOULDN'T HAVE EXISTED WITHOUT YOUR HELP. .
82) WE ARE AN INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY OF 100's OF THOUSANDS OF REGULAR CITIZENS THAT PARTICIPATE IN EVERY CITY AND TOWN IN NORTH AMERICAN WHEREVER MONARCHS LIVE TEACHING OTHERS HOW TO HELP CONSERVE AND INCREASE THE INCREDIBLE MONARCH BUTTERFLY MIGRATION.
83) WE DON"T AFFILIATE OURSELVES WITH MONARCH CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS THAT CHARGE DUES OR FEES TO TEACH YOU ABOUT MONARCH CONSERVATION OR BECOME MEMBERS.
84) WHAT WE TEACH IS SIMPLE . WE EXPLAIN HOW TO PROTECT MONARCHS EARLY STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT IN YOUR HOME IN A POP UP NETTED HATCHERY HABITAT SET ON A TABLE IN YOUR KITCHEN NEAR A WINDOW USING A FEWother ITEMS YOU HAVE AROUND THE HOUSE
85) I F YOU'RE GOING TO BE A CITIZEN SCIENTIST YOU SHOULD GET A GOOGLE: POCKET MINI 40X POWER MICROSCOPE ($3-5) TO CHECK YOUR MONARCHS BEFORE YOU RELEASE THEM TO SEE IF THEY'RE HEALTHY. THE BUTTERFLY-LADY WILL EXPLAIN WHY AND HOW TO USE YOUR MINI-MICROSCOPE IN THIS 7 MIN VIDEO LINKED HERE:
http://butterfly-lady.com/what-is-oe/
86) THE FOUNDERS AND 100s OF THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS LISTED AT THE FOLLOWING LINK DON"T CHARGE ANYONE FOR ANYTHING, THERE'S NO MEMBERSHIP COST OR DUES.
WE DON'T
EVEN TAKE DONATIONS.
87) THESE ARE MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION FACEBOOK GROUPS THAT EACH HAVE THOUSANDS OF MEMBERS ALL OVER NORTH AMERICA.
88) THERE'S LOTS OF PICTURES AND LINKS TO GROUPS AT THIS LINK.
89) IF YOU CLICK ON AN ORGANIZATION THAT CHARGES MONEY TO JOIN, OR CHARGES FOR ANYTHING DON"T JOIN THAT GROUP OR ORGANIZATION. THE VAST MAJORITY OF FACEBOOK MONARCH CONSERVATION GROUPS DON'T CHARGE ANYTHING. YOU CAN JOIN OR VIEW WITHOUT JOINING ONE OF THE FREE GROUPS ON FACEBOOK OR AS MANY AS YOU LIKE.
90) THESE GROUPS ARE EASY AND FREE TO CREATE AND DOESN'T COST ANYTHING TO BE PART OF THESE ORGANIZATIONS AND/OR LEARN FROM MEMBERS OF THESE GROUPS. MAYBE YOU WILL WANT TO CREATE A GROUP OF YOUR OWN. LOOK ON YOUR FACEBOOK SETTINGS ON YOUR FACEBOOK PROFILE TO FIND OUT HOW..
91) WE WILL TEACH YOU EXACTLY HOW TO SIMPLY PROTECT MONARCHS UNTIL THEY ARE BUTTERFLIES IF YOU READ ON
92) ALL YOU DO IS VISIT ONE OF MANY ONLINE MONARCH BUTTERFLY CONSERVATION ORGANIZATIONS OR AS MANY OF THEM AS YOU LIKE. OR ALL OF THEM.
93) IF YOU DON'T WANT TO JOIN A PRIVATE GROUP, YOU CAN VIEW 'A 'PUBLIC' GROUP AND POST YOUR QUESTIONS WITHOUT JOINING THE GROUP . IF YOU WANT SOME HELP AND/OR YOU WANT TO ASK A QUESTION, JUST ASK IT IN A POST YOU PUT ON THE TIMELINE FEED OF A GROUP YOU VIEWED OR JOINED AND SOMEONE WILL HELP YOU AND ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.
94) WHETHER IT'S A PRIVATE GROUP YOU JOINED OR A PUBLIC GROUP YOU VIEWED AND/OR JOINED., THERE'S NEVER A CHARGE TO VIEW THE GROUP, ASK A QUESTION ,OR JOIN.
95) IF YOU WANT TO CONTACT SOMEONE ALREADY INVOLVED IN MONARCH CONSERVATION NEAR YOU, JUST POST TO THE GROUP THE NAME OF YOUR CITY AND STATE AND YOU WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO SOMEONE THAT WILL HELP YOU GET STARTED PROTECTING MONARCHS AND TO PRIVATE MESSAGE YOU.
96) YOU CAN GO TO THE TOP OF THE GROUP PAGE TO THE SEARCH FEATURE, PUT IN YOUR CITY AND STATE, AND SEE IF SOMEONE COMES UP AND YOU CAN PRIVATE MESSAGE THEM..
97) IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS ON YOUR OWN WITHOUT DIRECT PERSONAL HELP SOME GROUPS HAVE FILE SECTIONS AND 'FEATURED' POSTS ON THE DROP DOWN MENUS AT THE TOP OF THE GROUP PAGE.
98) ) YOU CAN PRIVATE MESSAGE SOMEONE WHO CONTACTS YOU BACK AFTER YOU LOOK AT THEIR PROFILE. YOU ARE ABLE TO EXCHANGE MESSAGES. WITHOUT KNOWING EACH OTHERS PHYSICAL ADDRESS.
99) THEY MAY HAVE SOME EXTRA MONARCH EGGS THEY NEED HELP WITH FEEDING OR THEY MAY TELL YOU WHERE THERE"S SOME MILKWEED SO YOU CAN GO FIND YOUR OWN EGGS ON MILKWEED OR NET A MONARCH YOU SEE LAYING EGGS TO PUT IN YOUR HATCHERY TO LAY EGGS.
100) PLEASE READ AND LEARN WHAT'S TAUGHT ON THE OTHER PAGES OF THIS WEBSITE !
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