Learning How To Raise Butterflies

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If you have grade school aged children, raising butterflies can be a great experience. Monarchs are one of the most ideal to raise at home. This can become a real hands on learning experience for them. You can help to teach them about the different life stages of a butterfly.

If you want to help teach your children about their life cycle, one of the best things you can do is pick up a book on them. Monarchs lay their eggs on common milkweed and also use it as a food source. If you want an easy way to get monarch eggs, you can plant milkweed  in your garden. Monarch eggs look like a tiny white football often on the underside of milkweed leaves. Then you simply clip the leaf the egg is attached to with a scissors. Once you have clipped the leaf, put it into a Tupperware container.

Now this is a good temporary home for your egg. Soon it will hatch and turn into a tiny caterpillar. You will need to supply new milkweed leaves every few days. Old leaves mold before too long, so make sure to remove them. As your caterpillar grows, you will need to move him and the milkweed into a butterfly net house. These make for a great location to house your caterpillar as it changes into a butterfly. Just make sure that when you open the top you are very careful of any chrysalis that may on the top.

The chrsalis will be a bright green, and remain that way until the moment before the butterfly immerges. Before it comes out, ussually within 24 to 48 hours it will turn clear, where you can actually see the monarchs wings. If you want to learn more about attracting butterflies to your home, along with housing them, the butterfly book is a great resource. This can be a great learning resource for your children.