A monarch's journey of a lifetime
Tuesday, April 27, 2021 3:47 PM
Roughly one percent of all monarchs tagged will be recovered in Mexico. This photo, featured on the back cover of my book, THE MONARCH: Saving Our Most-Loved Butterfly, shows the very first monarch I ever tagged.
In late July, early August, I walk through my gardens with a mission.
I make a beeline for the eight different species of milkweed growing
there. At each plant, I inspect every leaf for tiny pearlescent eggs,
laid one at a time, usually one per leaf, and often just one per plant.
At
that time of year, these monarch butterfly eggs will hatch out a very