This year I am raising Monarchs, Eastern Black swallowtails and Painted Lady Butterflies. I was told Monarchs are starting to disappear, so I am glad to have found as many as I have.
Right now I have
- 3 Monarch Butterflies
- 2 Painted Lady Butterflies
- 20 Monarch Chrysalises
- 35 Monarch caterpillars in different stages
- 10 Monarch eggs
- 8 Eastern Black Swallowtail caterpillars in different stages
I am teaching my great friend, Evie, how to raise them too. She has over twenty! This is her first year raising them, and she is doing a good job.
I would like to have over 100 all together. It would be really cool to have 100 chrysalises all at once. It would be so much fun to let 100 butterflies all free at the same time too! But I don’t have a big enough container for that.
If you find any Monarch eggs, caterpillars or chrysalises, I would happily raise them for you! Just bring them to Audrey’s Butterfly hotel.
Very cool. We will try to look for some.
Well done! So you have some butterflies. In South Africa there is a big sort of tent and lots of flowers that are special ones and they keep butterflies in them. It is open to the public and where children can learn their names and so on. So you have your own! That is lovely. Keep it up.
Lorraine
hey Audrey! I’m having fun raising them they are so cool!i would also like to have 100 chrysalis’s too! that would be amazing to watch them fly away.