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Can you do this with ulysses eggs too? My ulysses keep getting parasitised by wasps in pupa stage.

There is always a SPIDER for every butterfly.I love the huge webs they make to catch insects

I LOVE SPIDERS

So beautiful 😍

Looks like shredded wheat

Thank you for the informative video. I'm also from Ontario and grew my first garden from transplants this year and almost all of it turned out amazing. Next year i am going to start seeds indoors and this video was very helpful for me starting my prep work. Best wishes.

What are loofahs used for???

So cool! ❤

Thank you, Ellsey, for the great tips.

Hi I love this would you mind sharing the name of this tool

So, how often do you have to change the leaves in the containers? Mine keep dieing 😢

Excellent video! I just ordered this little chain saw online and figured I'd be able to handle it for some small jobs. Even after reading the manual carefully (which I always do) I felt totally unprepared to actually use it. I didn't know where to put the oil on the blade. It says to adjust the tension if needed; how do you know if it needs adjusting or not? Does the battery need charging before you use it? It is NOT easy to figure out. There are a lot of unanswered questions, and a chainsaw is a very scary tool to use in the first place! Thank you for saying the same things I feel about this tool. Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone else can figure things out better than I can, but apparently I'm not as bad as I thought. THANK YOU! I now have the courage to go try it.

💙 beautiful! Monarchs are a very rare sight on the west coast of Canada. I heard they are an endangered species now 😔 …I think I’ll plant swamp milkweed next to the creek in my yard to try to help them

Thank you for this video. I live in zone 5a and planted loofah for the first time this year. I have 15 on the vines right now. They are a good size but still very green. The nights are getting vold this week, below 10°c. I know they don't have enough time to dry on the vine before the first frost so I will harvest them now and store them inside to dry them out as you suggested.

Fascinating... today I collect the zebra with the spots, have enough carrot to feed. :) thanks for your tips and wisdom!

Sometimes the switch does not work and then you cannot use to saw.... It's erratic... I wish I could return mine. I think it is defective If you buy one be sure to buy from a local store so if it does not work properly you can return it

hi i recently have 10 crysislis, but sad to say they wsre eating the mexican milkweed and it has a fungus so if any of u have that colorful milkweed ease dig it up and throw it out!!!

I’m in CT 6a and have one long Luffa that is doing great. It’s beginning to feel squishy and light but still quite green. Should I drape anything over the plant to keep it warmer as our temps are dipping into the low 50’s and high 40’s at night (no frost yet). Also do I need to support it in any way like I would a hanging spaghetti squash? Thanks.

I'm from oside,Cali Last yr.Ive raised 54.This yr.92 this yr.Things have slowed

Man, I thought our bantam chicken eggs were small. xD

Thanks for the update... nothing worse than nasty neighbours. Hard to imagine anyone having a problem with your beautiful garden. But you will definitely be better off with a fence between you even if it costs you some sunshine. And maybe you could put up some smiley face and peace signs on tall posts facing her way ... Sounds like she could use it 🤣🤣🤣

Thank you for this exceptional video. I learned so much to take care of mine ! Yes, I have one. Love him! He's beautiful! He has such vibrant colors, beautiful markings and a sweet attitude. He's not afraid of me when I pet him. Only showed his osmeterium once, twice when I showed my mom. The first time I saw that happen I was 😮. I found 7 hatchlings last week on my baby dill, not knowing what they were at first I regretfully relocated and let 5 go in another part of our garden (I'm so sorry now- I pray they found the parsley nearby) but when I found 2 more l became curious to find out what they were. A quick photo and Google search later--wow! Once I discovered what they were I put them back in my dill planter, I had to make sure they were well fed now. I tried to find 5 others, but they were gone. Surprisingly of the two I had, one wondered off, but thank God one stayed! He was starting to run out of food so I offered him parsley. He wasn't interested. Not one bite. So I bought him a live dill from the supermarket produce department! Yes! I gently relocated from my dill planter, while he was asleep, to my mini aquarium filled with the live dill! He's so happy eating dill all day 😂. Thanks to you now I know how to help him next. Got to get him a few nice sticks to attach to. He's over a couple inches long. He's grown so big since over a week ago that I found him so he's probably almost ready to change. I can't thank you enough for this video. Sorry for over sharing. I'm just so excited! Thank you so much! ❤THANK you with all my heart, God bless you and your family always! 😊

I just watched my first Monarch hatch out! Beautiful! Thank you for the great Video :)

Neato - thanks for sharing and letting me know about this company. I’ve wanted to try different plants too but some stuff doesn’t work for my zone. I will check them out for next year.

Well now - I may try that next year. And I have those same trellises. This year I grew scarlet runner beans up them for my hummingbird friends.

Yes, they are nice melons… I haven’t had much luck with plants like that because the growing season where I live near Ottawa seems to be truncated. And I seem to live in an area that has a microclimate different from the nearby town less than 15 minutes away. I notice that when I go shopping in the spring, plants like hostas will be getting bushy already whereas mine are two weeks out and barely popping up. Sometimes my tomatoes don’t have time to ripen, although my romas did pretty well this year, but I only got one plant because I didn’t want to be disappointed. That’s what I don’t plant much or sometimes any fruit or vegetables, except what I call random potatoes because I save the sprouting kitchen potatoes over the winter and plant them in random places. They can actually make beautiful lush green plants with lovely white flowers, and sometimes grow those tomato like seed pod thingys. Not this year with its up and down weather. I also like to rely on hardy perennials and let things live on their own without much interference from me. My sister says I should water things sometimes to help them grow bigger and better, but I don’t always. Oh, the best pumpkin I grew last year that made a huge trailing vine was a compost find. I named him Seymour and he seemed to stretch a couple inches every day. I did water him…

Hmm - I do like the idea of planting bulbs to come up randomly in my yard much better than in a garden space so I will try that this fall. Which is guess is around the corner now. I don’t remove dandelions from my grass anymore though, so I’ll just dig a little hole. I have a big property, so I’d better buy a big bag of bulbs. I’ve always wanted a field of daffodils ever since they taught us the Wordsworth poem in school all those years ago. When all at once I saw a crowd - a host - of golden daffodils…

I’ve grown a few avocado trees in the past, but the best one was from when I buried kitchen scraps in the garden and it had just come up into a good sized tree by the fall. I was so surprised and delighted. I dug it up and put it in a pot. I gave it to a friend and wonder how it’s been doing…

You can do it little buddy!

Well now - that was an excellently produced very informative little instructional documentary. Exactly what I needed. I’ve been letting the milkweed plants grow in this one round garden space I have near my house which is my favourite garden in my whole 3 acres, for the past several years and slowly the monarchs have been showing up and laying their precious eggs. I call it my monarch butterfly nursery garden. I remember that several years ago after I moved to the country, I wondered why I didn’t see many butterflies and specifically monarchs around. When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, they seemed to be everywhere. Then I read that sadly they have become endangered. Happily, this year I’ve had the most caterpillars ever and about a week ago I counted 6 on one day! That was exciting for me. I love those little fellas. So cute and so hungry. I did not realize that hey travel around to different plants. I thought they would just stay out. I’ve been toying with the idea of putting one in a big jar made into a terrarium but then I felt bad about interfering with Mother Nature. You’ve made me realize it isn’t as hard to raise them as I thought it might be and I can increase their population that way. Next year I will try it. I have seen females flitting about and laying their eggs I presume and I think now I can recognize them under the leaves with your expert help. I hope they all successfully return from Mexico next year. I look forward to seeing them. That was a male at the end of the video with the 2 spots on the wings. Every year I always have to look up how to tell the sex but just now I thought that the dots kind of remind me of testes, so maybe I’ll remember. Thanks for the great video!

That’s great Thank you for doing that

Wowww Great, Informative, Video! I Recently Caught A Female Eastern Swallowtail On Video And Felt Like O Captured Gold. Rarely See Them Nowadays! Nice Sharing ❤ 😊 🦋 🙏

except what you just showed weren't button quails but coturnix quails

Thanks for the info. I raised 9 this year. Found them on a job site where the milk weed was growing in the parking lot and needed to be removed. I've had them since they just hatched There just about to cocoon :) can't wait for them to be beautiful monarchs!

Is there any way to know (aside from time), if it’s going to be a pupa through winter??

Awsome information. Thank you for sharing.

Very good video.. I had head that their body’s are swollen because it contains the fluid they put into the wings to enlarge.

How tall are your backyard galvanized beds and do you add sticks and leaves and whatnot to the bottom or are they only filled with soil?

Thankyou I was looking for a video that didn’t use special tools

Looking awesome

Love it!!!

AWESOME! Thank you for your time. This is just what I was looking for.

Awesome video with great footage and info! I have a caterpillar now for the first time and it's just about to pupate. Are the clips that you show with the butterfly walking on you just after it comes out of the chrysalis? Thanks for confirming!

Well the Monarch butterfly when it comes out of the chrysalis is not full of poop, its actually the fluid in the abdomen, that the butterfly pumps into its wings, and yes access fluid falls to the ground making it seem like its poop or waste.

Amazing how it just KNOWS what to do,& where.Maybe we are a human chrysalis-& then, we, turn into 🪽angels❤.

Very encouraging videos for those of us living in colder climates. I do have a couple of questions. While germinating the luffa seeds indoors on the heating pads, I did not see or hear a mention of perhaps using growing lights as well, if using growing lamps, which type would you suggest? Are growing lights needed to start the seeds because you also mention as an option to placing the seeds on top of a refrigerator, do you just sit the seeds in front of a window with the heat pads?

I have been eating volunteer mut pumkins for several years and they taste great and make the best pies. I wonder the percentage of toxic pumpkins because it seems kind of rare.

I raise them to, just found 2 eggs yesterday brought them in I saw the Monarch laying the eggs, raising and releasing is so rewarding, to see something so beautiful that you have nurtured to an adult. I have done this for many years

I did not see chicken snack-time coming. 😂🐛

I grew wheat the birds loved it