Hello folks how's it going I hope you're doing well and I hope you've been enjoying this week with the

Verdant North Caroline and Dan today it's a sad day because it's the final episode with them, but it's a great episode.

So this is how to care for, raise, cultivate monarch butterflies in the garden,

contributing to the life cycle of the monarchs in as

best a way as possible and also reaping the benefits for your garden as well.

So without further ado, let's kick in to today's episode.

All right, so our final topic with you guys for this time is pollinators but actually butterflies right

because I know that you are a butterfly lover and so let's talk about how to get more

of those bad boys in the garden sure so I've raised a few different varieties of butterflies and moths. Those

are in the family Lepidoptera if you're going to be real science and cool about it. But I've

raised Atlas moths which are a huge dinner plate sized like rusty red and brown colored

moths, Circropia moths. They're so cool. And I've also raised monarch butterflies. So we all know that monarchs are a species that we're all paying attention to because they are the insect with the largest migration pattern in North America. In other countries

and continents where they have monarch butterflies, they don't migrate like that. if you go to Australia they don't have

a monarch migration the way we do our monarch migration starts in like the

Baja Peninsula and a couple of places in Mexico and goes all the way up to Canada.

And there's many generations that it takes to get all the way up to Canada.

And then that last generation before winter hits starts heading back down to Mexico.

So there are different websites you can follow to see where monarchs are migrating.

And that's really exciting.

So if you have a pollinator in mind and we're going to talk about butterfly specifically,

you have to think about what does that species need for its caterpillars and what does that

species need for its adults because some butterflies and moths do not eat as adults.

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