I have been raising Monarchs since June 3 this year. There are not that many :( .
My first one I found June 3 and it was an egg. It hatched on my birthday, I named it Curious. When he was roaming, I found my first caterpillar. It was half way through its stages. Megan named it Stripes.
Curious made its chrysalis and when he emerged we were watching him. It was fun because I was watching him while I was eating breakfast. I heard a little crack and I looked up and I saw that he was pushing his chrysalis open. I ran and told Momma and we watched it. Stripes made his chrysalis the same morning.
I let Curious go at the park. I did a class about butterflies and since he was a butterfly, we let him go at the end of class.
When Stripes emerged, she was fine, but later her wing tore somehow in her cage. We looked on the internet to see how to fix it. We saw that we could put tape on it. I will try to write later how we did it. We got it fixed and let her go. She could still fly, but it was a little wobbly. If you see a butterfly, with a taped wing, it is probably Stripes!
I have one more in a chrysalis. I named it monkey. After vacation, we might look for more. We have seen Monarchs flying around again.
I think we have some eggs on our milk weed. Hope there will be more after vacation.