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Thank you and good job! I am in mission possible division b this year and this helps to get some ideas.

Not incredibly different one just has an extra chromosome.

Hey love your channel and content. It’s great to see an educator who takes seriously their presence and impact in the lives of others. Thanks for being curious, creative and inspirational with your life. This year 3 males and one female returned to my yard. My yard is a registered site. So far no OE. But some deformities that statistically increase with the amount. I purchased some from an online site. Can you discuss imprinting on humans instead of milkweed (impact of human intervention). Can you redo euthanizing and how to be humane. Can you also discuss the sooty black fungus that sometimes appears with aphids. Due to excessive rain in NYC I experienced this. I cleaned the milkweed with a brush and baking soda/soap mix. Do you add aspirin to make a milk weed cutting last longer. For the aphids I purchased lady birds and the cinnamon helped. Question for you. Maybe I missed it congrats on the weight loss or should I be concerned for your health. No shade or disrespect. Just curious. Hope all is good Q.

Thank you!

Do these OE parasites have any natural enemies or ways to control them? If not are there any other ways to interfere with the life cycle of the parasites which might be able to help the Monarchs?

I feel like between environmental factors and the OE problem, they are doomed 😞

Great question and video. I wasn’t able to test everyone from my final (forever final, I’m in FL and I read Dr. Davis’ open letter to Floridians🤯) batch because I tried to give them a wild experience but now I’m going to go home and test some of the chrysalides I have! 😢

I still try to be polite to AI. If I were an AI developer, I'd definitely incorporate some way of returning better/more results to people who are polite, lol.

I raised one successfully a few years ago but have not found any among the oodles of milkweed that I have. I have seen only ten in my area this year. Finger lakes region. I would like to raise more but cannot find any to help. When I go online it continues to lead to the painted lady butterfly. The stink bug are the Monarchs number one predator and they have even vanished. I also raised around ten Black Swallowtail butterflies this but this year seen none on my dill

So the butterfly successfully emerged but you found spores after? Nothing can be done at this point, correct? Will the butterfly now lay all infected eggs?

That is so sad. I only saw 2 Monarchs in my yard this Summer. I have more milkweed this year than in the past.

That looks like an easier way to test, and an even stronger reason why cages have to be cleaned and sanitized if they are used for hatching several generations. It also explains why wild caught rescues have to be raised separately. This is the first year I found wild cats in my backyard. One actually made it to 5th instar on the worst bit of fallen over, ant and aphid infested milkweed. This particular plant was also weekly buffeted by a lawnmower. I think the only way the cat survived was because his mama laid that egg so close to the ground that the wasps couldn’t find him (wasps patrol the tops and exposed middles). I took him in and he’s now a perfect looking chrysalis. I’ll edit this comment when he hatches out next week. Side note - I found seven other wild cats on other fallen over, ant infested, lower milkweed….and now I wonder if wind storms and toppled milkweed are part of the process. Another observation, male monarches aggressively protecting a food source; they attack any flying insect. Planting milkweed with nectar source plants might deter some wasp predation for backyard habitat growers in suburban locations. I always think of the diversified plant make up of a natural, windswept meadow…perhaps the aggressive nature of male monarchs serves an evolutionary purpose…they protect their young and possibly deter overcrowding in limited resource (milkweed) areas.

Whoa, get ready for the dummies on Reddit, Rich! The monarch groups are full of them. I had to leave those groups! Good luck! 6 of my final 22 eggs made it to chrysalis and am waiting for eclosure later this week into next week. Lots of good flowers around here for them to get some food before the big flight.

I don't know about other areas, but here in 6a Massachusetts, my common and swamp milkweed was done blooming in July. I've already cut off the seed heads to save and plant elsewhere. I do have Joe pye, but that will be done blooming soon. Asters haven't started blooming yet and I let native weeds like snakeroot stay in my garden because they bloom Sept Oct. Physosteggia and blue lobelia are pollinator magnets and bloom for quite a long time.

Autumn Joy sedum is another late summer bloomer and grows in zones 4-11.

Thanks for you channel and I hope you continue for a long time. I live in zone 9a and very bad OE here. I don’t have good microscope but have a video scope with some magnification. Looking at a moving 3rd instar, I saw something strange towards its rear. Got the scope and made a 5 second video would have liked to send to you. Something moving inside below the skin. Thinking tachinid fly larvae but don’t have enough magnification. The caterpillar moving and so far does not appear to be ill. But worm-like creature inside. The poor thing is doomed. Have you seen this? Would it usually be dead before larvae would be growing?

It’s excellent that you are highlighting native fall blooming flowers! It seems like most states or locations have people who are as dedicated to native plants as you are to monarchs. A quick internet search will put you in touch with these groups. For instance, here on Long Island NY (zone 7a) we have a group called the Long Island Native Plant Initiative that sells many - you guessed it - native plants. In planting my milkweed, I also took the steps to plant and cultivate late blooming natives, like New England Asters and several local species of goldenrod. I also added cone flowers and sunflowers, including Mexican sunflower - which is huge with many flowers. Gardening and monarch conservation go hand in hand for many of us! Since this is your first go around with asters, I suggest you really study up on them. I bought asters that looked like yours from a big box store (kinda short and squatty), and while I can’t recall if they were labled New England Asters, they didn’t attract any butterflies or bees, even after two years. My best asters came from heirloom seeds that were sown in the fall. The first year of growth, they look like weeds and don’t grow much - I ripped out several plants before realized what they were. The second year they come in strong and get very tall (over 6’ and flop over). There is an old gardening rule for asters and goldenrod, cut them in half or a bit lower, mid-spring to early summer. Pruning promotes more flowers and less height. I have to put metal garden cage sections around my asters to keep them upright and off the lawn because they top out at 5’ high.

If you fly a drone strait up after the sunset, it will come back into view, this to me is something that disproves flat earth, and is easy for anyone to test.

I don’t see monarch butterflies, at all. Next year, I’m planting native milkweed for them. Currently, I plant passiflora lutea, and zinnias to attract gulf fritillary butterflies, and have watched several full cycles of them this year. I’ve seen the monarchs migrate south across Lake Pontchartrain (27October,2019), and it was really something. I wish I had thought about their needs in the spring.

Why isn't the monarch on the endangered species list? Is there anything we can all collectively do make this happen?😢 Thanks for all you do.

Hey, I just had a caterpillar try to form a chrysalis, it was already having a tough time trying to get a good anchor, it eventually did, when it was forming the chrysalis , and as the skin was splitting, i thought everything was doing great and i kept checking on it and checking on it, and i want to say after a day or so it was not making any progress at all i did not have a good feeling about it, maybe the skin was stuck and he or she could not molt and i checked this morning and he or she had died.

Glad I found your channel. Had tons of caterpillars earlier this season but had issues with my milkweed plants abruptly dying

There are some kinds of flowers that attract lady bugs if you plant a lot of them near milk weed can help bring in lady bugs to eat the aphids. I have planted Marigold with mexican milk weed and helped keep lower numbers of aphids but they still come. but I did notice not near as many as other areas that did not. I live in an area where Mexican milk weed does not over winter.

Asters are attractive in the garden! Good to see you again!

Be careful with Joe Pye Weed. Once established it will start popping up everywhere like common milkweed. If you try to grow coneflowers from seed, remember you must CMS the seeds first like common milkweed seeds. The New England aster will get huge. Mine are about 4-5 feet tall now. Always remember with perennials the 1-3 year saying. First they sleep, then they creep and then they leap!

Only problem with those beautiful zinnias is their water requirements are too high for me. With our 90-100 degree heat i was having to water every day, sometimes twice with my big barrel planters.

Im outside los angeles, and sad to report minimum cats this year. Good news, tons of giant swallowtails at least. Butterflies of all kinds love my lantana monarchs and others! Very drought and heat tolerant perfect for where it doesnt go below 50 so the plant stays alive. Hopefully next year will be better for our beloved orange and black gems.

Great episode. I concentrated on swamp and common milkweed first. Now, I am focusing on native host plants. I am glad you decided to put an episode out on this subject. I found a list on line of native host plants for butterflies of MI. It has been very helpful. If you ever do a road trip Weesies nursery in Montague MI sells native plants for under 2 dollars each. I get about 20 plants for them a year and it seems like they add new varieties regularly.

Hi Mr. Lund Science. I'm in my 5th summer now and I have to say that last year was not so good. This year is better however, my first 3 summers I used to see so many monarchs and I think they were ones that I had released as they kept coming back to my garden. Last year and this year, I don't see them coming back only about 4 maybe. I wonder why and it has me worried. I have a small garden but, I have it jammed packed with flowers for the monarchs, humming birds and bees. I love watching them all. It seems that the summer here is winding down and I haven't found any more eggs. I go to a couple of locations that has a lot of good fresh milkweed but, I never find any eggs. So ,I have food for the ones that I have and that's a good thing. I would like to ask you about a microscope because I don't have a clue what I would buy and I couldn't afford an expensive one. Let me know if you have any reccommendations, please. Thank you for all of your time and information.

I have a big yard ocer here near Ann Arbor and I let half of it go nuts at some point in early July. Native aster, goldenrod, queen anne's lace, chicory, joe pie, wild daisies all grow in that patch. Then they go to seed and the birds eat that all winter.

Thanks loads for your efforts to create such helpful content - great guidance as we attempt to help the Monarchs here in New England. We're in MA, we found a total of 60 eggs and cats the past few months, lost maybe 25+ to NP virus 😞, and of those that emerged there were 20 healthy butterflies we were able to release. I was able to use the microscope to scan 10 of them which was so cool. Also appreciated your bleach solution recipe to dunk milkweed leaves. Next year we'll include the eggs too with hopes for a healthier harvest. Best wishes and thanks again.

I'm in 6A as well....I would also recommend a plant called Button Blazing Star. It is also a late blooming nectar producer. Butterfly weed is another one that I would recommend you look into for the monarchs as well. They love mine for the nectar of the flowers, but it is also a host plant as is the swamp milkweed! I'm just south of you in Indiana!

I just have to say, I would've LOVED to have you as my chemistry teacher! You're amazing!

my blazing star has been completely done blooming for a couple weeks. Omaha NE

You can also plant zinnias they bloom into the fall butterflies and bees love them you can plant them by seed and they bloom middle summer into the fall-bonus you can also pull petals there will be a seed attached and can plant them in the spring

You are great and I love that you are highlighting nectar plants! Just a note that talking to a Florist is probably not a great recommendation as a resource. Florists specialize in arranging cut flowers, which for the most part they don’t grow and are usually imported and have been sprayed with chemicals. That’s a whole side tangent I won’t get into here. I’m not saying that there aren’t Florists who are mindful of native plants, but it’s not really what most of them do. I would recommend people ask their local nursery or garden center for advice. Even the big box stores are starting to have a natives section now. You gave some great examples of plants like goldenrod and aster that would work anywhere down the US Eastern migration route. Echinacea, rudbeckia and liatris also work well across that route. Hope everyone starts planting more natives! Monarchs are what got me into native gardening and I hope they do that for a lot more people 😊

My question is not related to the topic of Fall Nectar Producing Plants. When should one stop bringing in monarch eggs/caterpillars for hand rearing? I live in Iowa zone 5B and am still finding monarch eggs and caterpillars on the milkweed plants in my area.

Thank You

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Very informative. Thank you. I also had many laughs with your disclaimers. Haha

Just watched your fabulous clip! So I found a little guy with a broken wing but clearly healthy any thoughts?

There are no long term affects in butterflies since they don’t live long term. 😂

I am hoping you see this and are able to give me some advice asap. I found a pair of mating Monarch’s in my yard today but the male has died while connected to the female. She is unable to separate herself or fly. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you

Thanks for the info in this video. I am raising Monarchs for the first time and decided to let a few Tussocks come along for the ride!

I ordered my first set of larvae this year and involved the neighbor kids in the release. It was so much fun, and my husband is already excited about doing it again next year. So we’re an official waystation here, with 2 types of milkweed in Maryland zone 7B. We released 12 raised from Monarch Watch larvae and 6 wild caught 5th instar caterpillars after tagging. Thank you for the helpful video!

Amazing video! How much time passed from when the chrysalis went clear to when the butterfly emerged?

Okay, I’m a moron, i tried to put paper towel down so if the chrysalis fell or the Monarch fell so it can climb back up, I accidentally knocked down a caterpillar on top of the pop up tent, it was finding a spot to J hang and possibly making the silk pad or mat, do you think the monarch caterpillar will go back up?

I am in hardiness zone 5b, it appears that you harvest the rubber-banded pods the first week of November? When on the calendar do you go out to rubberband the pods beforehand? We have milkweed growing roadside in the tall grass and I would like to harvest and plant the seeds. I get the monarchs that visit the flowers in my yard and would like to provide them a close location to lay their eggs. When I was in middle school, used to collect the catapillars and raise them in a cage and observe the lifecycle and set the butterflies free when I was living in zone 6b. I have also done this with black swallowtails and was lucky enough to do this with a Luna Moth. It is a fascinating process to watch.

We have a bunch of cocoons in our patio. Today we noticed a butterfly on its back on the floor. We think he had fallen off of its chrysalis while it was pumping fluid. We kept flipping it over onto its feet but I thinks it’s wings were injured. Glad we found this video bc we wanted to help it. We ended up putting the butter fly on a flower so it could enjoy nature while it can.

Good dispassionate argurments and simple experiment that anyone can test. Stated simply without resorting to ad hominin attacks about the theory you're trying to disprove.