What’s it like to foster parent butterflies? Eliza Waters fills us in colorfully …
The first of the monarchs (Danaus plexippus) I have been fostering on my kitchen counter this past month hatched today and it’s a female. Like any proud parent, I think she is perfect and beautiful! I feel hopeful for her future, but it will be a long road for her, fraught with obstacles. After fattening up on coneflower, Joe Pye weed, zinnias and other favorite flower nectars, she sails 2,500 miles to the Michoacan Mountains in Mexico.
Overcoming human activity such as speeding autos, loss of nectar feeding habitats, as well as excessive cold, drought and predation will be daunting. If she reaches her winter roost site in the few remaining acres of oyamel pine trees (which are cut for their valuable timber by the local people), she must safely survive possible severe cold or snowstorms, predatory birds and mice that take advantage of the bounty of millions of clustered…
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Happiness Between Tails by da-AL 
Nice pictures. Is that a butterfly bush. Ours didn’t grow. What does a butterfly bush need to grow?
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Not sure – Eliza, do you know?
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Who’s Eliza? With all the butterflies I thought it might be.
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Eliza is the author who wrote this wonderful guest blog post 🙂
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OK thanks. Does she know if it was a Butterfly Bush?
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I don’t know – did you try commenting to her from her site? just click the post & it will take you to her site – pls. let me know if it doesn’t work for you 🙂
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Thank you for spreading awareness of the plight of imperiled Monarchs, it’s greatly appreciated!
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🙂
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