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Monarch Butterfly: Full life cycle.

emerogork
9 years ago

What is the full life cycle of the monarch butterfly when it is in my garden. What might I be unwittingly doing that interferes with that pattern? Although I see several of them every year, I have never seen the caterpillar.

I wrote to the USDA extension service here and asked for the full cycle of the Monarch Butterfly on Milk Weed that might be careful to not interfere with the process, all they said was a two sentence reply as if a 6th grader wrote it. Basically said "Yes the Monarch butterfly needs the Milkweed plant to survive and that it is a disappearing habitat." (Duh...)

Anything I look up starts with the caterpillar and this is not only from web sites but scholarly dissertations from academics too. I is as if all these people never get their hands dirty.

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