The Monarch Chronicles 9/12/2017 - 10/20/2017
The two documents below chronicle the raising of Monarch Butterflies from Caterpillars (and later eggs) to adult Butterfly. This started by accident when my wife and I noticed an inch-long caterpillar growing on a milkweed stalk coming up in the expansion joint between two slabs of our driveway. Then a second one. Then a third very small one. There was a quick learning curve with more caterpillars found in the front yard and later a couple of batches (five then four) from TMN Carol Clark. These are best read in order and clicking on links to see further detailed explanation as to what is going on as well as other articles, sites, videos and pictures I ran across while researching this experiment. All errors are mine, but I'd appreciate it if you discover any link errors that you shoot me an email c.camp@ieee.org Monarch Chronicles #1.pdf Monarch Chronicles #2.pdf PersonalExperience Powerpoint Note: This is a 500Mb Office 13 PowerPoint multimedia presentation that will take a while to download. A much smaller 4Mb PDF is available here, but while the photos will display, the movies will not play and stacked images will show only the top image.

The Monarch Chronicles

9/12/2017 - 10/20/2017

The two documents below chronicle the raising of Monarch Butterflies from Caterpillars (and later eggs) to adult Butterfly. This started by accident when my wife and I noticed an inch-long caterpillar growing on a milkweed stalk coming up in the expansion joint between two slabs of our driveway.

Then a second one. Then a third very small one.

There was a quick learning curve with more caterpillars found in the front yard and later a couple of batches (five then four) from TMN Carol Clark.

These are best read in order and clicking on links to see further detailed explanation as to what is going on as well as other articles, sites, videos and pictures I ran across while researching this experiment.

All errors are mine, but I'd appreciate it if you discover any link errors that you shoot me an email c.camp@ieee.org

Monarch Chronicles #1.pdf
Monarch Chronicles #2.pdf
PersonalExperience Powerpoint

Note:
This is a 500Mb Office 13 PowerPoint multimedia presentation that will take a while to download.

A much smaller 4Mb PDF is available here, but while the photos will display, the movies will not play and stacked images will show only the top image.