Bring Monarchs Home - Workshop

Raise and Release Monarch Butterflies

Date: Sunday, June 16
Time: 10:00 a.m.
Address: Broadlands Community Center 43008 Waxpool Rd, Broadlands

Available space: 25/All ages (free)

HANDS ON WORKSHOP - LEARN WHAT TO PLANT AND HOW TO ATTRACT MONARCHS TO YOUR GARDEN AND RAISE THEM:

Raising and releasing butterflies is a great experience to experience the life cycle of beautiful Monarch Butterflies while seeing the direct relationship between plants and animals.

Tips for finding eggs and caterpillars and for raising and releasing Monarchs through the summer.

Rearing cages and the book “How to Raise Monarch Butterflies” will be available for purchase.

Questions: contact Jill Miller at jmiller@loudounwildlife.org

Online Registration is Required! http://www.loudounwildlife.org/SignUp.htm

KEEP KIDS LEARING OUTDOORS THIS SPRING!
Parents are always looking for the most unusual, interesting activities to give their kids that the children will feel excited and learn at the same time. Raising butterflies is truly an educational experience that every child will want to do over and over again.

You can take the kids on a hike to search for butterfly eggs and collect them, then make a home for them.
Did you know that the monarch butterflies that live in North America migrate?

Monarch butterflies are the only insect to migrate up to 2,500 miles to get out of the cold weather and hibernate. But not all monarch butterflies migrate; only the fourth generation of monarchs can migrate each year because the first three generations die after about six weeks from escaping their chrysalids.

Did you know that monarch butterflies go through four generations each year? The first three generations hatch from their chrysalis state and live for up to six weeks, but the fourth generation continues to live on for up to nine months so that they can migrate to a warmer climate, hibernate, and then start a new first generation in the spring time.