Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies

As long-time readers of this blog may recall, Monarch butterflies and their migration have always fascinated me. I even worked them into my YA fantasy series Misaligned, which I featured in an earlier blog post. Despite all of their wonderful attributes Monarchs cannot survive cold winters. Their solution is to… Read more“Map Monday, The Migration of Monarch Butterflies”

Amazing Monarch Butterflies

I’ve always really liked butterflies.  As a young kid one of my favorite science projects in school was the hands-on metamorphosis lab.  The teacher hung a mesh net filled with plants that contained eggs.  In the first days the eggs hatched and the caterpillars ate the plants.  In a few… Read more“Amazing Monarch Butterflies”