What to feed monarch butterflies?

Canned fruit nectar offers everything the newborn butterfly needs to develop further. Use the canned nectar in place of sugar water and either place it in a plastic bottle cap or saturate a tissue with it. Or provide nectar-bearing flowers, especially milkweed -- the monarch's food of choice. read more

Butterfly projects are fun and educational. You can get started one of two ways: raising your own from a kit or ordering newborn monarch butterflies through the mail. Either way, you need to feed them in order for them to thrive. read more

Pity the monarch butterflies! Not only do the earnest flutterers fly up to 265 miles a day on their trek back to northern climes, but they must do so in the face of a number of challenges. Some years bring strong south winds and unusually warm weather, which can throw off the timing of the migration. read more

Monarch butterflies are known for their completely liquid diets, whether they are sampling nectar from all sorts of different flowers, or they are using their long ‘straw’ to drink up water out of shallow ponds, monarch butterflies are usually always looking for things that are liquid to eat. read more