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A Worthwhile Hobby Ensuring Future Generations of Butterflies Are Strong and Healthy
Over these past few months, everyone here has been pretty locked in — we’ve taken the pandemic very seriously. Our staff has been working from home, our children finished the last school year at home, and most of our activities are confined to the house. While we have been keeping pretty busy with work, this quarantine has given us quite a lot of extra time. One of our goals this year, which we mentioned in a previous newsletter, was to tackle organizing our house as much as we could. We have organized and purged more than half of our house, which we’re pretty happy about. I’ve also found that I have a lot more extra time on my hands than I usually do this time of year. With five kids, our springs and summers are usually packed full with baseball season, competitive cheer competitions, and all the end-of-school activities. But this year, I’ve had the chance not only to get back into gardening and growing my own vegetables, but also to do something I’ve wanted to try for quite some time: butterfly rearing. In the past few years, a few friends have raised a variety of butterflies, and I’ve always thought it was so interesting. The goal is to help them grow into healthy and strong butterflies before releasing them into the wild, which is especially important for monarchs. Over the past 20–30 years, the monarch population has declined pretty significantly, and this movement aims to increase those numbers. A monarch’s lifespan is only three months, so
they have a very short window in which to migrate and lay eggs.
Because the spring and early summer are so busy, I’ve never had the time at home to even consider doing something like that, but this year, I finally had the chance. Since March, I’ve been planting and growing milkweed, collecting monarch eggs — as well as swallowtail and gulf fritillary eggs — and watching them go through their different stages of becoming butterflies. It’s really neat to see them grow. After 4-5 days in an egg, the caterpillar hatches, and for the next 7–17 days, it goes through five different changes, known as instars stages. Then the caterpillar ascends to the top of the enclosure, forms a chrysalis, and they stay in there for about 10 days before they emerge as a butterfly. By the time this newsletter comes out, I’ll have raised and released over 75 butterflies, and no matter how many times I’ve seen that process, it’s still so fascinating. The kids love it too. It’s like we’ve been doing an ongoing science project that involves every aspect of the caterpillars’ and butterflies’ lives. I’ve built a habitat; learned how to grow and keep a fresh supply of their food; learned more about pesticides and why not to use them; cleaned the habitat for the next eggs, caterpillars, and butterflies; and watched the amazing metamorphosis.
beauties flourish, it’s also given me a different view of the pandemic. The effort the caterpillars go through to become beautiful butterflies is similar to what everyone is experiencing during this pandemic. We worked hard before, and now we’re working even harder with these new challenges, just as the caterpillar works so hard to survive. Then the caterpillars go into their chrysalis and are wrapped in darkness and isolation, just like we’ve experienced during lockdown. It’s been a quiet, dark time in isolation for many of us without being around friends, family, and coworkers. Eventually, we’ll emerge from our isolation and darkness and, hopefully, like the caterpillars, we’ll become beautiful butterflies. It will take some time to make it to that point, but we can do it. If you have started any new hobbies or projects during the pandemic that you’re passionate about, we’d love to hear about it. While the future may be uncertain and we may still be spending our time in the chrysalis, we can always find joy in the activities that make us happy. Share your joy with us!
Rearing butterflies for the first time has not only given me the joy of watching these little
“Rearing butterflies for the first time has not only given me the joy of watching these little beauties flourish, but it’s also given me a different view of the pandemic.”
-Jennifer Kahn
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