Monarchs in Mason Jars: A Gardener's Guide to Preserving an Icon

This guide for creating a monarch garden provides in-depth milkweed and nectar flower information, detailed descriptions of the monarch life cycle and migration, how-to for hand raising wild-collected eggs and caterpillars, and an overview of multiple rearing equipment options. You'll also learn about predators, parasitoids, and disease, and a secret to reducing aphids with little effort. Over 90 color photos are included. A section on swallowtail caterpillars, and a list of 25+ host plants...