NEWS

Meadow View Growers in New Carlisle is maintaining more than 100 monarch butterflies, caterpillars, chrysalises and eggs raised in their Butterfly House. Customers can observe the monarch butterfly in all its life stages, from egg to adult, free of charge.

Meadow View feels the house is an educational tool bringing attention to the Monarch butterfly’s plummeting population seen over the last decade. This grower / retailer of fine plants is doing its part to help the butterflies through the hundreds of milkweed and other nectar plants maintained in their landscape display gardens.

MVG also sells milkweed as well as many other host and nectar plants, both annual and perennial, pollinators need. Milkweed is the common name for the genus Asclepias, the host plant on which female Monarch butterflies lay their eggs. The caterpillars that emerge from these eggs then have a ready food source available.

Monarch caterpillars are extremely sensitive to environmental toxins. For that reason, employees avoid handling them. Toxic plant sprays are also avoided.

On September 10th, a volunteer from Monarch Watch will be at MVG to “tag” the Monarch butterflies before they are released for their fall migration. A “release ceremony” is planned at the garden center so these Monarchs can join others on their journey to Mexico where they overwinter. Watch MVG’s Facebook page for the exact date of this release. This is the first year for MVG to raise Monarchs. They are hoping this will be successful and that hundreds of butterflies from their Butterfly House will be released into their natural environment.

Meadow View became a certified Monarch Waystation earlier in 2016. They are located at 755 N. Dayton-Lakeview Road (SR 235), just south of New Carlisle. For more information visit www.meadowview.com

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