Welcome To Our Blog
Below you will find our continually growing blog dedicated to everything related to raising and releasing butterflies. We have broken down the content into specific categories based on our online store, products, and other services. This space is continually evolving to assist you in understanding all the ins and outs of raising, caring for, and releasing butterflies.
If you would like to contribute any knowledge you’ve gained, pictures of your experience, please share it with us at info@monarchbutterflies.ca. We value your insights and any new information you may have. Just as humans sometimes have developmental growth issues, whether physical or behavioral, butterflies are very much the same. By sharing your experiences, with pictures, we can learn, understand, and share your knowledge with others, improving our collective ability to care for butterflies.
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Has the ‘COVID effect’ worn off for nature lovers?
Big Butterfly Count sees a drop in participants compared to 2020 and 2021, and urges the public not to forget the benefits of being connected

Recent IUCN ‘endangered” listing creates confusion for monarch butterfly fans
A recent designation of the monarch butterfly as “endangered” by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) had monarch aficionados’ heads spinning last

Internationally protected Coul Links once again under threat from golf course
A coalition of seven environmental organisations has expressed concern over new plans for a golf course at Coul Links in East Sutherland. In June 2022,

Transylvania Finale
I could say it began to get a bit tiring the amount of people that went on about Dracula and Vampires when I mentioned I

The Season of the Grizzly.
Although it’s early days I have been a little disappointed with the number of Grizzled Skipper so far this Spring. Hopefully numbers will pick up

IUCN Red List and the status of monarchs – Monarch Watch
Thursday, July 21st, 2022 at 9:58 pm by Jim Lovett Filed under Monarch Conservation The recent news about the IUCN’s Red List does not change