Welcome back to today’s installment of how I’m making my monarch keeper. Here’s all the bits I didn’t write up yesterday, along with info and images about materials and the process. Continue reading “Cleaning out/Setting up the monarch keeper, Part 2”
I had started setting up the tank on Sunday, but quickly realized when I found the old crickets inside that it was in fact used as a reptile tank at one point. That changed my plan of action slightly, as it still had some sand in the base and now the cleaning would need to be more thorough just in case anything lingered from the former residents. Then my cat got sick, and suffice it to say I forgot about the cleaning though I still kept an eye on the monarchs. Continue reading “Cleaning out the monarch keeper”
At first, I thought the newest egg dried out or I had squished it in transfer because I couldn’t find the baby larva nearby today when I check on the monarchs and the egg looked deflated. I felt awful. Continue reading “Guardianship update: 29th July 2018”
We currently have four larvae and another egg I risked taking off a seedpod. Continue reading “Guardianship update: 28th July 2018”
I found two more monarch eggs and brought them inside on their respective leaves. Continue reading “Two more monarch eggs found 24th July 2018”
One larvae is fully out of its egg. Teeny tiny even under the magnifying glass. The second is still working its way out. Continue reading “Monarch egg progress #2”
Not sure how many folks reading this remember the Count from Sesame Street, but the title above is what came to mind when I found the eggs today. Continue reading “One, two! Two Monarch eggs! Ah, ah, ah!”
I saw a curbside ad on Craig’s List today for a “terrarium”, and go to the address. I do so in the hope I might get my hands on a more suitable container for a project I’ve been wanting to do.
I heard back from a local monarch expert I’ve been corresponding with, and she concurred that what I found is more likely to be milkweed tussock larvae. Continue reading “Update on things that go from wormy to fluttery”
