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Welcome to our blog, dedicated to all things related to raising and releasing butterflies in Canada. Our continually growing content is organized into specific categories based on our online store, products, and services, and is designed to help you better understand the ins and outs of butterfly care.

We encourage you to share your experiences, insights, and pictures with us at info@monarchbutterflies.ca. Your contributions can help us all learn and improve our ability to care for butterflies, and we value your knowledge and expertise. By working together, we can ensure that these beautiful and important insects continue to thrive in Canada.

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Quick Butterfly Facts

All butterflies taste with their feet. There are more than 20,000 different species of butterflies know to man Butterflies live on an all liquid diet​​

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Quick Painted Lady Butterfly Facts

Their wing span ranges from 5 to 9 cm The are seen from from May to October every year  They live in every continent around the world except Antarctica The Painted Lady

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Quick Monarch Butterfly Facts

Monarch butterflies can be tagged which allow us to follow the migration pattern when they are sighted and reported.  Gliders have reported sightings of monarchs at an altitude of

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Monarch Butterfly Tagging

Each year there are four to six generations of monarchs. Starting August monarchs begin their annual migration which is up to 5000 km. The monarchs fly over

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Monarch Migration

Monarch butterflies (Danaus Plexippus) perform annual migrations across North America which have been called “one of the most spectacular natural phenomena in the world”. Starting in August, northern

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Butterfly Pollination

A pollinator is the biotic agent (vector) that moves pollen from the male anthers of a flower to the female stigma of a flower, to accomplish fertilization of the female gametes in the ovule of the flower. A pollinator is different

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