Butterfly Blog

The Butterfly Blog will keep you up to date on news here at Glorious Butterfly and in the world of Butterflies. It will:

  • let you know when new pages are added to this website

  • update you when substantial changes are made to current pages

  • inform you about Butterfly news and happenings around the world

  • highlight important pages that have been around awhile and you may have missed

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Best Butterfly Garden Kit

Cheap Butterfly Garden Kit - Quick and easy butterfly garden kit Includes plants and instructions.

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Best Butterfly Garden Plants

Butterfly Garden Plants - Cheap Butterfly Plants for attracting butterflies to your garden.

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Thanks to your Glorious Butterfly Website.......

.....I learned how to successfully raise butterflies!!! Since I first found you, just over a month ago, I have raised 3 Monarchs and at the moment, I

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Newly emerged male Black Swallowtail compositions with a "twist"

This beautiful specimen over-wintered in my house along with a second Black Swallowtail that should emerge any time now. I've hatched Monarchs before,

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When to prune milkweed plants?

Hello, I purchased 75 tropical milkweed seeds from glorious butterfly this winter and have had wonderful success with starting the seeds. When the plants

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Life Cycle of a Butterfly Video and DVD

Life Cycle of a Butterfly Video - This Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle Movie is perfect for the classroom or home. Photos, narration and video show the Monarch stages from egg to butterfly.

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How to Overwinter Black Swallowtail Chrysalis

Hello Glorious-Butterflies!! I was hoping you wouldn't mind if I asked your assistance regarding overwintering the black swallowtail. I actually had

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Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle

Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle PowerPoint - Excellent monarch life cycle elementary science lesson plans idea. Includes free Study Guide with questions and answers. Great for homeschool lesson plans,

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Striking Gulf Fritillary

Taken at an outdoor butterfly park in Mission Texas. Karen says: Thank you for the beautiful picture of a gulf fritillary butterfly. The underside of

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Monarch Butterfly Eggs

Monarch Butterfly Egg
Monarch eggs are very tiny but once you find one and know what they look like, they are easy to find....then, you can raise a monarch!

If you have a question about monarch eggs, check this Q&A page on monarch butterfly eggs to see if you can find the answer.


Monarch Butterfly with OE

Monarch Butterfly OE

OE or Ophryocystis elektroscirrha is a parasite which affects Monarch butterflies. It shows up in the chrysalis and butterfly.

Here are some questions and answers about Monarch Butterfly OE.

Care of Milkweed Plants

Monarch Caterpillars on Tropical Milkweed

Milkweed plants are the host plant or caterpillar food for monarch butterflies.

Check out these questions and answers, tips and interesting information about tropical and swamp milkweed plants.

Painted Lady Butterfly

Painted Lady Butterfly on Aster

A Painted Lady Butterfly is very easy to raise. Many teachers raise painted lady butterflies in their classrooms for school science project ideas.

Here is more information on the pretty little painted lady butterfly.

Hatching at Night - Is This OK?

One of our butterflies appears to be ready to hatch. We are first time butterfly people and just put the caterpillars in a cardboard box. I am worried

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