save the monarchs🐛

Ramiro, Arely, Brittney, Arly #mortonpride

[Angelica Rodriguez @Angelicajsm201]

Great success at the FC Monarch Garden. Thank you to @bio_otoole, students, parents, community and staff members that participated. #Mortonpride

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

currently planting our milkweed seeds!!!

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

we are currently adding some of the final touches to our garden design!!!!

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

Cosmos / light purple is one of the flowers that are going to get put in our garden!

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

putting our milkweed in sand to remove shell! #MortonPride

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

A monarch's brilliant coloring tells predators, "Don't eat me! I'm poisonous." The Monarchs get their toxins from a plant called milkweed.

[MonarchPeople @PeopleMonarch]

Monarch Fact! Adult Monarch butterflies sip nectar with their proboscis. The proboscis is a sucking tube.

[MonarchPeople @PeopleMonarch]

Monarch Fact! Monarch Butterflies are diurnal.

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

Currently working on our design plan. So far we are calculating the areas of our pathways!

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

did you know that the monarchs that travel south are called “The Super Generation”?

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

fun fact- did you know that monarchs’ wings flap slower than other butterflies? Their wings flap at 300 to 720 times a minute!

[save the monarchs🐛 @milkkweedd]

Just adding some more detail to our garden sketch! #mortonpride