I keep a few monarchs for educational purposes, and I feed them by hand. They like Gatorade! Monarch butterflies are stopping in our yards and gardens
for snacks as they make their way south. The monarch is the state insect of
Idaho, yet little is known about where they go for the winter, or where they
travel to in the spring. The guess is that most Idaho monarchs go to coastal
California. Tagging projects may prove that to be true (I have tagged 3 this
year), or it may be that some monarchs go to Mexico.
Learn more in this article and video I did with the Idaho
Statesman. If you want to help these royal butterflies, plant milkweed for
their babies and plant lots of flowers to fuel migratory energy.
They're very pretty! I know milkweed's essential for them.
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