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Monarch Butterfly 101
1 students

Monarch Butterfly 101

Learn About Monarch Butterflies In One Sitting
Created byHowExpert
Last updated 8/2020
English

What you'll learn

  • Monarch Butterfly
  • Monarch Butterflies
  • Monarch Butterfly Tips
  • Monarch Butterfly Lessons

Course content

1 section • 10 lectures • 1h 18m total length

  • Welcome0:11

    Explore monarch butterflies in a concise, one-sitting guide authored by expert press Jessica Domus, designed to teach essential monarch butterfly basics quickly and clearly.

  • Preface1:51

    Explore the monarch butterfly's life cycle—from egg to caterpillar to chrysalis—and its migration southwest. Learn how milkweed, pollination, and habitat loss shape the future of this pollinator and Earth's green.

  • Part 1: Why Monarch Butterflies are Special?14:30

    Showcases the monarch butterfly's hope-inspiring migration and beauty while highlighting its role as a vital pollinator for many crops. Explore its cultural meanings and ecological impact on ecosystems.

  • Part 2: The Metamorphosis5:58

    Explore the monarch butterfly's metamorphosis, detailing the four life stages—egg, larva (caterpillar), pupa (chrysalis), and adult—alongside milkweed, molting, and seasonal migration.

  • Part 3: The Monarch Habitat5:38

    Explore monarch habitat, temperature around 80 degrees, not flying below 55, crawling at 41, with migration across midwest states and milkweed habitats, plus diseases and predators.

  • Part 4: The Monarch Migration7:17

    Discover how monarchs migrate from Canada and eastern North America to the oyamel fir forest in Mexico and California coast, guided by an internal sun compass and antenna clock.

  • Part 5: Habits of the Monarch8:12

    Learn how monarchs feed by drinking nectar, tree sap, and minerals, and why milkweed is essential for caterpillar survival and egg-laying. Explore their mating, overwintering, and migrations.

  • Part 6: Where are the Monarchs Going?16:12

    Examine the factors driving monarch declines, including habitat loss, milkweed reduction, herbicide impacts, and migratory challenges, and review conservation efforts.

  • Part 7: Ways to Help the Monarchs15:32

    Discover practical actions to help monarchs and pollinators, from planting native milkweed and nectar plants to creating monarch way stations and engaging in community education and citizen science.

  • Part 8: Butterfly Meanings and Viewings3:34

    Explore monarch meanings as signs of personal change, encouraging you to relax, embrace metamorphosis, and seize journeys for peace, happiness, and joyful times.

Requirements

  • No experience necessary - All levels welcome - Beginners, Intermediate, & Advanced

Description

This course tells what people believe about the monarch, why people love it, why it is important to science, the history of the monarch, the meaning of its name, and what the purpose of the monarch’s life is.

- It gives a full description of what the monarch looks like, the metamorphosis, and a description of its four stages of its life.

- It describes the monarch’s habitat, diseases, common predators, and what they do to avoid them.

- It gives a description of the famous migration of the monarchs to Mexico and California every year.

- It tells of the habits of the monarch including what they eat, the importance of milkweed plants, their mating habits, and other interesting facts.

- It will list the reasons why the monarch is disappearing and how several organizations are working hard to save them.

- There is a list of things to do to help save the caterpillars so they have the chance to become beautiful monarchs.

- This course explains how we can keep the monarch from becoming classified as an endangered species.

- The course has a list in the last chapter of places you can go to see exhibits and the live monarch along with other butterflies.

About the Expert:

Raised in the countryside of lovely central Minnesota, Jessica Dumas had plenty of butterflies around and was amazed by them. When she grew up, she married and moved to the city, had three children and a career. Her love for butterflies dwindled. Several years later her mom died from breast cancer. She left her several butterfly-related personal items.

Jessica's love for butterflies was rekindled and in remembrance of her, she became an advocate and lover of butterflies with the desire to write about them. She has written poems about butterflies but this is her first butterfly course. Jessica hopes you enjoy it!

Who this course is for:

  • Monarch Butterfly Enthusiasts

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