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NEW Raising and Releasing Butterflies


Adult activities and classes / Hobbies / General Interest -
Adult - Winter/Spring 2024

Help save the monarch butterflies! This class will teach you how to attract monarch butterflies to your pollinator garden. Learn how to recognize monarch eggs, how to successfully raise newborn caterpillars to adult phase, and how to safely release the butterflies. You will receive native milkweed seeds from instructor's garden to plant your own milkweed. Bonus: learn about how to raise and release swallowtail butterflies!

Lori Jansen

Instructor

I started pollinator gardening several years ago, when the monarch population decline was making news. After I added two types of milkweed to my garden, I saw the monarch population in my yard explode, with eggs, newborn caterpillars, and lots of butterflies! I spent the next several years perfecting my monarch-raising, including moving the entire operation indoors to avoid parasites that killed many of my caterpillars. I've learned a lot over the years and now have expanded my operation to include raising and releasing black swallowtail butterflies.

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  Lori Jansen


Northdale Middle School : Room 700 - Meeting
Thursday, May 2
6:30 - 8:00 PM

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Price: $ 19 00