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A full page article - best one & my picture is not in it - oh, well.
Toronto Sun - Aug. 16, 2007 - page 30 - torontosun.canoe.ca
Text - TANIA THOMSON/PHOTOS
Donald Barber, of Port Credit, takes monarch butterfly eggs and cultivates them
in a glass case
in his backyard, above, to protect them from other insects. Below right,
7-year-old Spencer
Camilleri of Oakville, checks out one of the caterpillars before its
transformation.
Beautiful
creatures
Port Credit man cultivates monarch butterflies
Just call him King of the Monarchs.
For a second year, Donald Barber has successfully
cultivated and released monarch butterflies
from his Port Credit backyard.
The environmentalist’s secret — a patch
of milkweed. Officially declared a “noxious
weed,” it is the only plant monarch caterpillars
will feed on and lay their eggs on.
Once Barber spots eggs on the milkweed
leaves, he transfers the leaves to a glass case to
protect them from other insects.
An egg takes between three and 12 days
to hatch into larva, then about two weeks to
develop into a caterpillar.
In another two weeks, the caterpillar will
have gone through several skin sheddings,
finally encasing itself in a hard shell from
which it will emerge as a magnificent monarch.
This year Barber will have successfully
released more than 100 monarchs, more than
doubling his effort in 2006.
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