How to raise butterflies at home. I have never raised caterpillars before but decided to get two native milkweed plants and to my surprise, a female monarch came and laid 7 eggs! Let me take you on a journey of all their life stages. Please consider planting native plants, this will help save the monarchs! (this species was the Monarch Butterfly aka danaus plexippus)

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TIMESTAMPS:
0:00 Intro (why should YOU plant native plants)
1:35 TINY Baby caterpillars hatched
2:00 Small container setup for small caterpillars
2:14 Moving caterpillars to a bigger container
2:38 Caterpillars eating leaves
2:58 What to feed monarch caterpillars
3:23 Cleaning the caterpillar container
4:26 How to decide if YOU SHOULD raise caterpillars
4:48 Mesh Caterpillar Habitat Cage
5:33 Why do caterpillars eat so many leaves?
6:08 Caterpillar INSTARS and ANATOMY
7:20 Why do caterpillars eat MILKWEED Plants
7:55 Preparing for the PUPA stage
8:43 What happens when a caterpillar turns into a chrysalis?
9:14 Caterpillar changing into a chrysalis TIMELAPSE
9:40 Monarch caterpillar chrysalis
10:27 Monarch Butterflies HATCHED
10:43 butterfly hatching from chrysalis TIMELAPSE
11:07 Newly Hatched Monarch Butterflies
11:22 Butterflies ready for release
11:50 Releasing Monarch Butterflies into the WILD
14:18 Outtro

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