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This describes the approved most natural way to protect up to 100 monarch eggs  in a  2' x 2'  x 3' netted pop up hatchery habitat until they're adult butterflies  You can order one  GOOGLE: "butterfly hatchery Habitat Cage" Be sure to get one that collapses into a circle for easy disinfecting.   Check butterflies for OE here: http://butterfly-lady.com/what-is-oe/

Inside Live Butterfly Sanctuary in Branford, Ct. These Educational Live butterfly sanctuary exhibits are great on the property of a privately owned garden center explained here: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/leaders-program

Teaching Yale University students to naturally raise monarchs at the Yale University Farm in 2019. We are using updated equipment now. Check out our website page: https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1

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CLICK HERE FOR POPUP HATCHERY   no smaller than 15 x 15 x  24"    Use a one gallon milk jug full of water as milkweed stem container

Our rearing method taught on the 

drop down menu item on the this website here:https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1 Our method was observed and approved by members of the "LEPIDOPTERIST SOCIETY" at Peabody Museum on the Yale University campus and Displayed in the renowned "Discovery Hall"

Mary and Craig The Butterflyman  Introductory mini-doc

Meet Craig the Butterflyman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfn9wuvVaDw&t=4s

Texas State Representative Tony Dale, the legislature, and Craig the Butterfly Man work together to support the monarch butterfly and other pollinators.  

Meet Craig the Butterflyman https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfn9wuvVaDw&t=4s

Craig the Butterfly with families in his educational live monarch butterfly sanctuary  trailer.

Classroom plants with caterpillars.

Craig and Mary's cottage garden in Branford, Ct'

The mobile sanctuary trailer at the Bob Bullock Museum's Museum Day. in Texas. 

This video provides a lot of information on rearing. This is the equipment we were using in 2019. Better hatchery habitats became available so we upgraded to Netted collapsible hatcheries as shown and described on this website page https://craigthebutterflyman.com/raise-monarchs-1

Monarchs flying in sanctuary trailer

As at Yale University, this is what your hatchery looks like after monarchs have emerged ready to be released to breed in the wild and increase the migration through multiplication and increase our enjoyment of wildlife

American Monarchs overwintering in the sanctuaries in Mexico. They will return to the southern U. S. A. in March and lay eggs. After 4 to 5 generations their great-great grand children will return to these sanctuaries  by November and start the cycle all over again