This gardener is sharing tips on how you can help save the monarch butterfly.
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Dina Fink is a gardener who learned about the imperiled status of monarch butterflies and decided she had to do something to help. Fink helps monarch butterflies by planting milkweed, the only host plant for monarch butterflies.
Here are a few tips on how you can help the monarch butterflies in your area.
To learn more about monarch butterflies, visit @thebutterflyceo on TikTok.
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This is a brilliant idea, however people should investigate plants that are best for their area. Milkweed is considered an invasive species in Ireland & you shouldn’t grow it here. Check with your local butterfly conservation org to find out what plants are appropriate for your country/area. Well done to these folks, it’s a great idea.
Now This Earth, you should really do a deeper dive into this, as the video misses a lot of nuances. Try contacting the Xerxes Society for Invertebrate Conservation.
Make sure your hands are clean for both collection and feeding. Disease can wipe out caterpillars
Do you guys have any suggestions for plants that would help other endangered insects?
The monarch is an invasive species here in Australia, right? Maybe try gathering and transorting some from over here? Not sure if that could work for if things get dire, probably more of an emergency plan if the main problem is food source, but might be something to keep in mind.
Not certain how i feel about this message about raising them yourself, we all know what happened with silkworms… the planting plants for them is good though👍
Just lost my only 3 (and first ever caterpillars) from either NPV, a bacteria, or pesticide 😢 be sure to really research how to clean the eggs and leaves before you try and rear them so you don’t go through this terrible loss. Googling “how to euthanize monarch caterpillars” was not a skill I wanted.
Also, DON’T MOVE THE EGGS FEOM THEIR LEAVES!!! They are incredibly delicate and shouldn’t be disturbed as much as possible!!! Just cut the leaf around egg and discard the excess if you truly don’t have room to house the whole leaf with your other eggs!
Im doing the same!!! ❤❤❤. Please plant native milkweed according to your state.
When you love something there's a risk of caring hate……….. Uchiha madara
A previous comment asked about the type of native milkweed that should be planted and I've been trying to get information about which type is correct because a TV program i saw many years ago about Monarch conservation spoke of a certain type of milkweed that is similar in appearance to the native milkweed plants up here in MA but when ingested its poisonous and actually kills the caterpillar instead. I apologize that i can't remember exactly what was said in that program but It was something like the milkweed plant had been shipped up to here in MA from Texas or that it was bought and planted in Texas or down south somewhere along the Monarchs' migration route but regardless of where it was planted it was killing the caterpillars. I've been trying to get the correct information on this. People need to be careful and know exactly what they are buying/planting.
On another note, where I live the manager of the property hired a landscaper and as I watched him start mowing the community areas I was getting nervous as he approached an area where some fully grown milkweed are, I wanted to make sure he knew beforehand not to mow them down so I ran over to him and asked him if he knew what the plants were, he said No and that he was told by management to cut everything down ! He said he didn't know they were milkweed nor did he know anything about Monarch butterflies. What ??!! He's a Landscaper !!!! I often think about and wonder how many people just don't know anything about the importance of milkweed and about the severe decline in Monarchs. It also disturbs me so badly how many people don't realize (or just don't care) how bad pesticides are, they are more concerned about their plants and flowers being eaten by insects and don't think about or realize the birds, insects, toads, and so many other things that rely on these "pests" for their survival. I have more flowers and plants in my yard every year, without the use of any pesticides. So many that I can hardly keep up with dividing them. Lack of knowledge is a form of "pesticide". Pesticides are too easily obtained, they should be under lock and key – like spray paint became.
Don't buy avocados. …! That helps him at his home town in Mexico because of the avocado plantations they're destroying his habitat
I'm gonna do this!
It's so easy. 🌿🦋🌿🦋
I am growing milkweed, and raising monarchs in Pekin Il. I know a milkweed jungle near me that keeps getting mowed, I find eggs and caterpillars when I walk my dog in the morning, and take them home and raise them, I have a lot of spare time.
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Ok. I'll grow milk weed!! " I think I can!"
I havent seen a monarch since i was young. I will definitely plant milk weed . 🤞
Has 3 chrysalis's hatch out this morning🦋
Every house should have plants and habitats for wild animals and insects…
if I were a kindergarden teacher in the USA i would have this be a little project for the kids❤️ teach them about this beautiful native species & they can learn responsibility x
Please please please only plant native non tropical milkweed from your area!!
The best way is to eat a vegan organic diet to save the natural habitats for animals and insects
It would be wonderful if people focused on them and other native pollinators instead of the invasive domestic domestic honey bee
Great job maam
With all the CHEMTRAILS SPRAYED over the past 50 years….it a losing battle.
Thank you for this information. I drive through my local forest and collect and spread wild flowers seed before they spray and cut the road sides. I purchased Butterfly Weed and Butterfly seeds to plant. In the forest they were covered up black wing butterflies.