Get Ready - Awesome NEWS

NEW FOR 2010

Winter has been here too long and we are making every effort to grow milkweed for a tremendous part of the country and many breeders and educators that are very late to begin planting seeds. Please place any orders ASAP so you will be able to get on our backorder list for plants. Typically we have an Easter season filled with flying color but this year will be a struggle for everyone including the monarchs. Planting seeds and raising plants will be of very great importance.

Please do your part and lant a seed... in the ground and in the minds of others that will too. THANK YOU.

We have been working with top programmers over the winter to bring you a truly remarkable Community Map where you can fly like a butterfly around the globe and find over 30,000 people just like you that have visited our site and become a part of our world wide campaign to protect Nature and take action today. This Map allows you to see each participant and their home location, any pictures they wanted to share and the profiles they have made. This Map will be used to track Monarch sightings, New community Members, School Projects, Fundraising events, The location of our travelling 40 foot Monarch. Yes, That is not a typo click the link and see where 300 hours of our Founder's vacation time went. We will be flying around the country to help spread the word and plenty of milkweed seed. You will soon be able to see us on the map and follow our migration too. If you want us to stop by your community please let us know.

To better answer the thousands of questions we get every year and to better create a learning environment among our many friends we have created a Question and Answer Forum where you can ask our staff any question you could not find the answer to during your search of our site and help us create a living guide for others that continues to grow with information based on all our experience.

Videos, Yes there are now several wonderful videos to teach you indepth or especially interesting stuff you need to know and see! Just search the site to find them and watch as many times as you want. You can share them with your friends too. At the moment they are on Youtube.com

While the above NEWS is really exciting we have some other improvements that are really important too.

1. Our order department has had a major programming / functionality / database / enhanced notification upgrade! We can finally track most every action on every order through our system. Every action we take, with each order will send you an email update so you know what to expect and when to expect your packages...especially important if weather is unfavorable for some shipments. We understand that you really want your stuff and we both really want it to arrive alive!

2. Our Logo has had a major improvement...We love the new more accurate picture description of our Global presence. Our site was always global with questions and orders from around the world. Yes, we have shiped castles to most every country to care for butterflies and many other kinds of insects and animals. A big thank you for all our World Wide friends. You may be as surprised as we were to learn of just where a Mnarch butterfly has been found.

3. New Staff and new programs designed to give you what you need to make an impact in your community.

4. Our main focus has always been the education we provide and materials we supply to assist you in your efforts to restore and create new habitat for indeginious wildlife. While we have always strived to provide the best quality live Monarch eggs, caterpillars, pupae and adults, the pupae and adults will now be on a limited basis. Pupae and Adults require an enormous ammount of staff effort and due to shipping costs and delivery issues we will be unable to accept every order. We have partner breeders that as the year progresses may assist.