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Monarch butterflies need to be raised outdoors to migrate

Started By OhNoNotAgain , Oct 21 2020 8:30 AM

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#1 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 21 2020 - 8:30 AM

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The news came out recently that monarch butterflies, even wild ones, lose the ability to orient south and migrate when they were raised indoors.

Newest research shows that even being raised in a GREENHOUSE is insufficient.

 

https://www.scienced...00804190711.htm

 

And for anyone who didn't know, monarch migration is multi-generational... the ones who start flying south are the grandchildren (or thereabouts) of those who started flying north out of Mexico. The butterflies that return to the same trees in Mexico or California are the great-great grandchildren-ish of the ones who perched there the year before.


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#2 Offline OhNoNotAgain - Posted October 21 2020 - 9:28 AM

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Speaking of which, I just found out that butternut squash or pumpkin can make supplemental monarch caterpillar food.

 

If you find a monarch caterpillar that is short of milkweed, try pumpkin or other orange winter squash:

 

https://www.cranialb...rnut-squash.htm


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Veromessor pergandei, andrei; Novomessor cockerelli

Camponotus fragilis; also separate journal: Camponotus sansabeanus, vicinus, quercicola

Liometopum occidentale;  Prenolepis imparis; Myrmecocystus mexicanus

Pogonomyrmex subnitidus and previously californicus

Tetramorium sp.

Termites: Zootermopsis angusticollis

 

Isopods: A. gestroi, granulatum, kluugi, maculatum, vulgare; C. murina; P. hoffmannseggi, P. haasi, P. ornatus; V. parvus

Spoods: Phidippus sp.

#3 Offline ANTdrew - Posted October 21 2020 - 12:16 PM

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Animal migration is one thing humans may never fully understand.
I just saw my 36th monarch of 2020.
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