Artistic Contributions

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Monarchs often bring out the creative side of people, sometimes even people who didn't know they had a creative side! This page provides a forum for the artistic expressions of our volunteers. If you'd like to submit something to be displayed here, click here for instructions.

Videos

Monarch Tagging at Conserve School 2010 - Conserve School students and staff collect monarch caterpillars in the school garden, raise them in rearing chambers, observe them for parasite activity, tag them, take samples, and keep records to send to university labs. Video contributed by MLMP volunteer Mary Anna Thornton.

Essays

Got Milkweed? - Loree Bryer

Poetry & Prose

"Female 1" by Barbara Powers

Untitled - C. Stocker
Common Milkweed - G. Sweeney
The Monarch Butterfly - G. Sweeney
Fair The Wind - G. Kittell
The Last Monarch - G. Kittell
Fall Migration - G. Kittell
The Parasitic Wasp - G. Kittell
Butterflying - G. Kittell
Who Knows? - G. Kittell
Gifts of Asclepias Syriaca - S. Oberhauser
The Monarch - P. Goldman
The Journey (Passing Through Vermont) - D. Parkinson
It Came to Rest - G. Kittell
Tachinid Flies - G. Kittell
The Monarch Egg - G. Kittell
Migrating Monarchs - G. Kittell
Monarch Haiku - I. Gebhard
Kidnapped by Caterpillar - I. Gebhard
Determination - S. Korsten
An Endangered Royal Flight - S. Oberhauser
Late Summer Purple - S. Oberhauser
Hatchlings Away - C. Cullar

Songs

Butterfly Chant - P. Stobie
Imitation is the Sincerest Form of Butterfly - N. Schimmel
Migration Roads - K. Massado

Digital art, paintings, and drawings can be found in the Art album in our Photo Gallery