Monarch Caterpillars on Milkweed!

[@brandongreene9615]

I dodged all the milkweed when I mowed this year because of this channel. This man is doing the lords work.

[@cesmith48]

Yes, yes he is.

[@CosmicCrittercom]

So cool!

[@mowlessbeemore2107]

Mow even less and allow your other wildflowers to bloom. Help your native bees and other butterflies. I did and my wildflowers are beautiful.

[@brandongreene9615]

@@mowlessbeemore2107 I am going to try to do that. I have about 2.5 acres and I’m currently thinning out the grown up woods. I’m keeping all the hardwoods, Oak, Cherry, and Hickory are pretty much all I’m keeping. I’ll keep an area of just pine and cedar just to have it but because of this guy I’m gonna turn it into open canopy grassland like it was before the lumber companies came in and cut down all the trees allowing the pines and cedars to all of a sudden out compete grasses and Native Americans could no longer do controlled burns and buffalo could no longer graze the land. I’ve learned a lot of what this man talks about but I’ve never seen someone as knowledgeable as him who can actually communicate it to the public so well. Kids should have to watch these videos in school lol

[@cesmith48]

Moving toward eco-friendly gardening.

[@briansutton2176]

Having milkweed is easy enough for most people to grow and it really helps with pollination.

[@m.sunshinestarchild5119]

This is everything! My kiddos and I love your channel. ❤

[@llkoolbean4935]

This man is singlehandedly gonna transform Alabama.❤ How inspiring 🙏

[@kellyharrison5184]

Fantastic! Keep up your good and important work!

[@ToniM10]

Hopefully..they will all make the trip to...MEXICO!!....✌️❤️😎👍👍

[@MrMaddoks]

Hearing you talk about saving these plants and then seeing all the critters that come because of the plants just makes my heart glow😊

[@ameliareed3118]

Single handedly saving the monarchs

[@feleicapetrie6731]

Just thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@shintanetagawa]

Thank you for helping the kings of the butterflies! They are my favorite and i have tried my best but its hard when you live in the city. My dream is to save up enough to get a house so i can have a huge garden for the monarchs and actual ladybugs

[@ParisfromTexas]

So worth the sacrifice!! Your milkweed will grow even stronger next year after being stripped by the monarch caterpillars. Mother Nature takes and gives 😊

[@armchairphilosopher9164]

Awesome job man! I think I can speak for the majority of us when I saw that you have motivated me to increase my native plant conservation efforts.

[@guylaraway6102]

in the 70s and 80s, when I could still walk all day, I hunted in the Sharon Valley Game Area in Jackson county Michigan. I always picked seed pods from milkweed and spread them there and along the road on my 50 mile drive home. there were easily 50 acres of milkweed then.

[@juanaragon3480]

God bless you brother for caring for nature.

[@jennifergraceh]

This makes me SO HAPPY to see. Ever since I was very young, my mom and I would go around the yard (northern michigan) and collect all of the little monarch caterpillars and raise them into butterflies and then release them. It was my absolute favorite thing to do in the summers and I continued to do it until I moved to California in my 20s. Now, my daughter, who stays with my parents, has continued the yearly tradition 🥰it was such a neat learning experience to see the life cycle of the monarch. The gold dots on the chrysalis were always so incredibly beautiful to look at and watch as the chrysalis slowly turned so dark and transparent to where you could see the wings forming in there. Ahh love it so much!

[@angeliquedevosd416]

this video should be taught in school kids need to learn this.

[@NC2005SC]

Thank you! I raise, release and tag Monarchs 🦋 every year! It's so easy to help the migration!

[@carrieann1640]

Great job.

[@mrmishi7849]

I love their colors

[@anysnail6390]

I can’t like this enough. You’re doing God’s work.

[@psychedforlife7176]

That's impressive!

[@kenziedee5220]

I just got myself some milkweed seeds this year too! Super excited to grow them and help the monarchs!!❤

[@Reilophonix]

So happy to see this much results

[@eatwhatukiii2532]

Wow, that’s a different species of milkweed than grows here in Maine. Ours have big leaves. I grow milkweed in my flower bed and around my pastures to attract the monarchs to my place. I had a lot of the caterpillars last summer. It’s good to see that monarchs can utilize more than one species of milkweed so they have more food and nesting resources they can depend on.

[@mikehandteDG]

I'm used to bigger leaf milkweed but it's great that you're doing this

[@shannonly23]

Awesome. What a beautiful thing!!!

[@leaflock7462]

My first grade class found a whole bunch of them on the tall grass at the edge of the school grounds, and our teacher Mrs. Swanson helped us bring some of them inside and raise them through their metamorphosis before we released them. Like 6 out of 8 or so made it. 🦋

[@kayrutledge1970]

That’s awesome!

[@gus473]

So fun to watch! 😎✌️

[@ph4780]

why didn't you just leave them?

[@leaflock7462]

@@ph4780 *shrug* can’t give you specifics, this was like 30 years ago. It was a great learning experience for us though, I still have vivid memories of watching one of the butterflies emerge from its chrysalis, and we took good care of them while they were in the classroom before we let them go. Honestly, I think it was an effective lesson for a bunch of 6 year olds.

[@steverossen2816]

@@ph4780 because little humans need to learn stuff. You think people just wake up one day and k ow stuff and know what they want to do with their life?

[@relfyem]

Wonderful :)

[@HeidiSue60]

This is amazing. Thank you for growing milkweed! Updates wanted

[@irishtrash5793]

My southern ontario heart is swelling from this.

[@jillrice2577]

How exciting!

[@Jeff5969]

That’s awesome!!!

[@wendymuhr3446]

They also loooove parsley which I don’t mind because it grows right back after they’ve munched it. 😂

[@ellenmcintyre1247]

My yellow swallowtails eat the parsley not monarchs

[@wendymuhr3446]

@@ellenmcintyre1247 ohhhhh gotcha that’s what they are!! Thank you! I’ll be looking out for them this year.

[@elladoz1966]

I seen one large Monarch in my front yard recently 🙂

[@LaurieGeePea]

I raised some caterpillars and found out that they ran out of milkweed so when they metamorphosed into a butterfly they were just smaller butterflies. They need a lot of milkweed

[@Iamthatguy01]

I was wondering what that plant was in my front yard. I guess I’m gonna have to check it for caterpillars.

[@kkibler1]

Yes! So sweet.

[@sk.n.9302]

Thank you for this, hoping to plant some milkweed on our ranch here in central Texas!

[@tas5622]

I love caterpillars

[@MyBrothersMario]

Thank you for helping the monarch butterflies, I'll be planting some butterfly milkweed myself. These butterflies are so beautiful it's a shame they're endangered.

[@CosmicCrittercom]

Oh! Wonderful! ❤

[@needleheadned]

I need a vest that says “not crazy just a Conservationist” for all my unsanctioned roadside harvesting.

[@Jackson-uk8xx]

This is beautiful my guy. 🦋

[@davidavard8461]

Here in 6a NE Kansas, my butterfly milkweed is only about 6” tall, but I’ve got tiny cats on my showy and swamp milkweed which sprouted a bit earlier. I’ll probably have to move them around so they don’t starve.

[@akashajoti6456]

You are Amazing!!! I’m working to follow your example!!!

[@yellowbird619]

Yay!!!🎉🎉🎉

[@JO-zu3mz]

I know what to plant where I can't mow around my garden border now 😊

[@drewbaumann9312]

This guy is the man!

[@RavenBlaze]

Awesome!!!!

[@pamalvestad3848]

Oh WoW

[@draconiusultamius]

Reminder that milkweed is NOT the only thing to keep! All other native plants are important in ensuring biodiversity. Monarchs are pretty cool, but let's not overlook the hundreds of other native lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) that need some love, baby food, and food for adults! Flowering plants with good nectar content will help some, and for others, it's all about providing food for the babies! I know some of those species aren't as exciting and cool as monarchs, and some may seem a bit scary, but they're all important to the land. Treasure all those little guys (even if they're "ugly" looking worms)

[@ogerwon1]

i love Monarchs, they're beautiful... . i raised them when i was a kid and they were a common sight in summer. but sadly, that species is on a rapid decline due to human invasion of their areas and the destruction of their only food plant. the Monarch butterflies have a chance, but only if milkweed is allowed to grow in great quantities and only if humans stay out their areas . its migration covers most of North America and its lifecycle remarkably complex and fragile. so, in my yard, i planted milkweed and "butterfly candy" to help them along. its the best i can do, because i can't stop the bulldozers.

[@elizabethcobb3316]

Interesting!

[@jsheible3695]

Awesome brother. Please show the blooms. Id love to plant some. Still not positive how to identify it ✌️

[@CosmicCrittercom]

This is a great idea

[@juliel5945]

Those plants look different from the ones in my state, Michigan , that people let grow for butterflies.

[@juanmoreira8272]

Awsome. Ive got the regular milkweed and am planting some butterfly weed this spring!

[@mommamonster1476]

My monarch caterpillars were no where to be found on my butterfly milkweed. They happily munched on my common milkweed, and a five foot catalpa tree. The tree's leaves were completely gone when they got a hold of them. I can't wait to see them again this year!

[@zackmcdonald5091]

I didn’t know the south had milkweed . Ours up here in the far north is way different looking .

[@toddlorenz8411]

We have common milkweed here at my place in Ohio, and we look forward to this every year now. Love this channel keep up the awesome work brother!!

[@FloridaManMatty]

Brother…you really are doing the Lord’s work.

[@courtneywilburn9286]

i got some butterfly flower seeds from lowes and i looked them up and it looks like its a butterfly weed so im gonna try to grow them and they are native to where i live so im happy about that

[@anniebell6846]

My mum had three we tracked until caccoon a love it .

[@willhough7700]

I'm trying to get this plant going in my yard!!!

[@amethystwyvern]

Congratulations 🎉

[@petdrask]

Amazing 🎉

[@limitlessends]

Protect this man at all costs

[@melissabean8144]

Nice. I used to use them as bait for fishing. Bass love them

[@CtheForestthroughtheTrees]

@ melissabean8144 I hope that your comment is a bad joke, as you are using a threatened species to snare your bass. Do you do the same thing with other threatened species?

[@lindaparshall9276]

We no longer have monarchs here in Oregon

[@tracyroake2815]

beautiful

[@gwpaul9029]

This is amazing.i have milkweed plants as well.

[@Natedawgontheright]

trying to talk my wife into letting the yard go wild again and stop de weeding it. I love the wildflowers and the randomness of a wild yard. she likes uniform, short cut grass only

[@loridoster1404]

So cool!!

[@UmiAnanda]

Awesome!

[@Sidoxenized]

So cool

[@monikal9384]

My butterfly weed is full of black and orange beetles, but we never have any monarch caterpillars on it. I think I saw tiny bitty ones last year, but then they all disappeared. I wonder if the bugs harm them...

[@kathleen1685]

Too cool!

[@rennapate8703]

That's awesome

[@aliceleavitt4241]

I understand that this video is about milkweed but I’m curious we need an update on the eggs and the mama goose what happened to them?

[@pamelarogers9140]

Amazing

[@ishicroy1176]

Fuck yeah!!

[@gardenboots7464]

💓!!!!!!!!

[@johnw6201]

🥰

[@janfoster5833]

This so cool

[@arealtorwitharescuepurpose1875]

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 beautifulllll

[@E.Meyers]

Cool!!

[@cordelia614]

Lucky ! I want one so bad you have so many you would not know if I snatched one right i mean your being greddy give

[@ZE308AC]

❤

[@furryplantsandcoins9070]

Do you know if hummingbirds are attracted to do this as well? I have three little hummingbirds that come to my home. Would love to know if that would be great for hummingbirds as well.

[@Jesse_1234]

I need some 😂

[@acester86]

arent monarch butterflies a pollenator species? Really good for nature.

[@seafruit.]

Do you get a lot of ticks from being out in the grass?

[@amim4701]

Where can people who live in the region get seeds?

[@dhrlh]

Does it matter when you plant them?

[@SockyNoob]

Native plants and native herbivores coexisting with neither species screwing over one another. That's impossible with non-native species. These milkweeds and monarch butterflies clearly evolved together for millions of years to the point they're both specialized for each other.

[@h2amster328]

that cat is a CATerpillar

[@onetwocue]

Forget about the birds. Its the german yellow jackets that will happily eat them

[@foxtrot26]

Whatever happened to the Canadian goose and the eggs

[@cassandrajohnson3012]

Do deer eat milkweed?

[@gus473]

Don't seem to! 😎✌️

[@erikaerika7788]

Nop

[@Sublime33]

@nativehabitatproject I live in the area over in Winston county if you ever need a second opinion or some advise 👍

[@bromelienhausen]

Wich Asclepias sp is this?

[@CosmicCrittercom]

He might not know as he collected wild seeds. If he does know it would be great if he mentioned it. :)