If I knew how to do it, I would send you pictures. My pot planter with parsley in it was stripped of all its leaves. Only stems were left. They were covered with monarch caterpillars. To anyone who claims that Monarchs are eating your parsley, fennel, dill, or carrots, you are mistaken. Those are Black Swallowtail caterpillars. They look similar to Monarch caterpillars both are striped , but swallowtails have a slight green tint to them. I have milkweed and the swallowtail host plants in my garden, and I have raised Monarchs from egg to adult.
I have never had a Monarch eating parsley but swallowtails love it, along with dill, rue, fennel, and Golden Alexander. I guess I can leave a question here. I live in New Orleans and the weather is unsteady this time of year. I have 25 large milkweed but unfortunately the caterpillars have devoured every leaf.
My heart breaks for the 9 caterpillars i have. Any suggestions besides going buy more plants I misspoke about the taxonomy of Honeyvine. Monarch caterpillars are not aware of this and eat it anyway! Here in the St. Louis area, Monarch caterpillars are regularly found feeding on what is commonly called Honeyvine milkweed, I am in my second year of raising ones found in my garden on this plant. Despite its name, Honeyvine is not actually in the milkweed family Asclepias , it is in the Apocynacea family.
It looks similar to and often grows in conjunction with bindweed, so the post about caterpillars on bindweed may have actually been Honeyvine. Monarch Caterapillars pick all manner of locations for their transformation into a chrysalis. I had one attach right to a cherry tomato? I be had chrysalis hanging on the rims of pots, the wooden shingles on my house, my railings, the door knocker etc For the last two years I have had multiple Monarchs eat my Parsley leaves down to nubs.
When I inquired I was told they only eat milkweed. Well not at this Florida household. Hi buddy, The post you shared really awesome! Great work, thanks for sharing your amazing blog. I just returned from the herb farm down road from me. Two out of 6 fennel plants had beautiful green monarch caterpillars munching away. I bought the plant for the caterpillar :o and I don't care if he eats all of it.
There are 3 bulbs in the pot I have sweet memories of swarms of monarchs, and black and yellow swallowtail butterflies. I stumbled across this article convinced that I was going to disprove the need for milkweed as I have been able to feed and hatch monarchs that I find attached to the vining weeds as I am weeding my flower bed.
I think a lot of people are familiar with the standard variety of milkweed, not the different subspecies. Instead of getting everyone to plant milkweed, I feel like it may be more obtainable to educate gardeners of the different milkweeds that can be beneficial and how to maintain them in a controlled way.
I would like to add a trellis to my garden to give my weeds a place of their own. Thank you for the information! I have photos of an African Monarch caterpillar eating my star-flower cactus. The egg must have been laid on it. It has now turned into a beautiful green chrysalis with a gold trim and gold dots. For two years in a row I have found monarch caterpillars on ivy plants in my backyard. I have never found them on any other plant except this particular ivy. I raised it to produce a monarch butterfly, keeping it safe my window pane.
This year I found 4 more. Same ivy. Maybe you could come up with a hypothesis for how this kind of scent marking would work. It depends on the generation. The ones that emerge in the late summer and fall in the northern US will travel all the way to their overwintering sites in Mexico, and then about half way back in the spring. How far is this measure it on a map? Monarch Butterflies. Contributed by Dr. Karen Oberhauser Includes food habitat and range niche enemies adaptations migration populations distribution ecosystems Food Q.
What do monarch butterflies eat? What color is nectar? Is it always the same color for each flower or does it change colors? How do monarchs eat? Q: Where does the monarch butterfly fit in the food web is it is considered poisonous by its predators due to the fact that it eats milkweed?
Do the males look for food more than the females? Are there any that can and do regularly eat monarch butterflies or caterpillars?
If the monarch butterfly is toxic to the two predator birds, what effect does the toxins have on the mice predators? Do monarchs in the north have a different chemical makeup because milkweed they eat is different from the southern milkweed?
Yes they do. Lincoln Brower and people working with him have used these differences to determine where adult butterflies they capture came from. What is the most abundant kind of milkweed in the U.
Do bees sting monarch pupae? Do you have any concerns about rearing monarchs and diseases? Where is the best place to find a monarch butterfly in the summer? Do monarch butterflies live only in North America? If so, Why? Do monarchs live in other parts of the world besides Mexico and the USA? Are there different types of monarchs? Are there monarchs living on other continents?
In Mexico, would monarch butterflies survive when there is snow on the ground? Why do monarchs hang in trees? How many butterflies died in Mexico during the freeze and is this going to affect their population and future survival? Are there any oyamel trees anywhere in the US?
Not that I know of, but there might be relict populations somewhere. What tree are they most similar to that can be compared to an oyamel tree in the US? What kind of trees do they overwinter in, when they are in California?
Behavioral Adaptations Migration Q. What tells the monarchs to migrate? How are monarchs able to fly so far and know where to go? Where do they store fat on their journey to Mexico and back? In their abdomens.
Why do they take the same route to Mexico and back? How far do they fly in a day? How do monarchs know where to go? When the monarchs go to Mexico how do they know where they are going? How do they know their way back up north? Why do monarchs migrate and not hibernate? Q: If monarchs did hibernate, how much food would they have to eat in order to survive the winter? How do the monarch butterflies know that Arizona is a northerly direction? How many monarchs travel together at the same time?
How do they travel such far distances? Do monarchs get lost during migration? Can butterflies travel over the ocean, and could butterflies land on water? Do monarchs have scent glands, and do they use scent markings to guide their migration North?
The caterpillars grow and molt several times over roughly a two-week period and then form a chrysalis in which they undergo metamorphosis.
After approximately another two weeks within the chrysalis, they emerge as adult butterflies. Most adult monarchs only live for a few weeks, searching for food in the form of flower nectar, for mates, and for milkweed on which to lay their eggs.
The last generation that hatches in late summer delays sexual maturity and undertakes a spectacular fall migration, one of the few insects to do so.
This migratory generation can live upward of eight months. Around March, the overwintering monarchs begin their journey north. Once migration begins, monarchs become sexually mature and mate. The females begin their search for milkweed plants on which to lay eggs. After mating and egg-laying, the adult butterflies die and the northward migration is continued by their offspring. It takes three to five generations to repopulate the rest of the United States and southern Canada until the final generation of the year hatches and does the return journey to the overwintering grounds.
The monarch migration is one of the greatest phenomena in the natural world. Monarchs know the correct direction to migrate even though the individuals that migrate have never made the journey before.
A single monarch can travel hundreds or even thousands of miles. The monarch population has declined by approximately 90 percent since the s. Monarchs face habitat loss and fragmentation in the United States and Mexico. Pesticides are also a danger. Herbicides kill both native nectar plants where adult monarchs feed, as well as the milkweed their caterpillars need as host plants.
Insecticides kill the monarchs themselves. Climate change alters the timing of migration as well as weather patterns, posing a risk to monarchs during migration and while overwintering. The U. One easy way to help monarchs is to participate in the National Wildlife Federation's Garden for Wildlife program by planting a pesticide-free monarch habitat garden filled with native milkweed and nectar plants.
North America has several dozen native milkweed species, with at least one naturally found in any given area. Use these regional guides to the best native nectar plants and milkweed for monarchs in your area.
Listed plants are based on documented monarch visitation, and bloom during the times of year when monarchs are present, are commercially available, and are hardy in natural growing conditions for each region. You can get information about additional butterfly and moth host plant species native to your zip code using the Native Plant Finder. Planting locally native species is the best option for helping monarchs because monarchs coevolved with native plants and their life cycles are in sync with each other.
In the last decade tropical milkweed Asclepias curassavica , a plant not native to the United States, has become an increasingly popular way to attract monarchs in garden settings.
Tropical milkweed is ornamental and easy to grow, and has become one of the most available milkweed species in nursery trade. Monarchs happily lay eggs on it. Despite these qualities, when planted in southern states and California, tropical milkweed can encourage monarchs to skip their migration and continue to breed through the winter, potentially putting them at risk for disease and other complications that they would have avoided by migrating.
The National Wildlife Federation encourages planting native milkweed and cutting back tropical milkweed in the fall to encourage monarch migration. In addition to the Garden for Wildlife program, National Wildlife Federation campaigns such as Butterfly Heroes engages kids and families in bringing awareness to the declining monarch population and gets them involved in helping monarchs and other pollinators.
Through the Mayors' Monarch Pledge , cities and municipalities are committing to creating habitat and educating citizens about how they can make a difference at home for monarchs. The National Wildlife Federation also works with the agriculture community and lawmakers to protect and to increase monarch habitat and declining grassland ecosystems. Learn more about the National Wildlife Federation's work to restore habitat for monarch butterflies. The National Wildlife Federation recommends that the best way to help monarchs is by restoring their natural habitat by planting native milkweeds and nectar plants, eliminating pesticides, and encouraging others to adopt these practices.
Due to the risks of spreading disease, limiting healthy genetic diversity, and bypassing natural selection, the National Wildlife Federation does not support the rearing of monarch caterpillars in captivity, or the mass release of commercially farmed butterflies.
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