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Butterflies Live a Life of Transformation
May we learn what they can teach us in this time!
OUR MONARCH PROGRAMS HAVE "MIGRATED" ONLINE CLASSES NOW TAKING FLIGHT!
Butterflies Live a Life of Transformation
May we learn what they can teach us in this time!
OUR MONARCH PROGRAMS HAVE "MIGRATED" ONLINE CLASSES NOW TAKING FLIGHT!
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Signed copies of Our New Book, Monarch Flutterbys, are now available! Great Gifts!
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PLANT MILKWEED!
Lindy and Philip were interviewed recently by 50Plus Senior News.
To see the full article, click here!
Contact us, [email protected]
PLANT MILKWEED!
Lindy and Philip were interviewed recently by 50Plus Senior News.
To see the full article, click here!
- Brand New Article--May 2020: "Teaching Transformation During the Covid-19 Pandemic"
- The Malins' Monarch Butterfly Transformation program
- Now comes into homes or any remote location on any computer or device.
- The Malins lead learners of any age to meet the butterflies on their computer or device.
Lindy and Philip offer folks their interactive website,
video podcasts, live webinars and email contacts to explore
the details of the world of the Monarch Butterfly
This transformational adventure
will affect us all for our lifetimes.
“ Could we change our attitude, we should not only
see life differently, but life itself would come
to be different.” --Katherine Mansfield.
"The most important thing we each can do to preserve the miraculous migration of the monarchs is to plant and maintain milkweed meadows." --Lindy & Philip Malin
A Monarch Born in December
The day after Christmas is traditionally known as Boxing Day. On this day, gift boxes of food and presents were prepared and given to those in need.
Local couple Lindy & Philip Malin received an unexpected, kingly gift on that day: a box containing a monarch butterfly! What’s so unusual about that gift is that all the other monarch butterflies, from Ontario in Canada and all points south have long ago migrated down to their winter habitat in the mountains of Mexico!
“It all began with a mysterious text we received on Saturday,” said Philip “A lady said she had a newly hatched monarch butterfly, and could we help her!” The Malins were doubtful but very curious. They spend their summer months rescuing raising and releasing monarch butterflies, through their program, Malins’ Monarchy now in its 20th year. This year they rescued 2300 throughout Lancaster. But all that usually comes to an end in the first week of October. At least that was what they documented in their recently published book Monarch Flutterbys. “The butterflies all migrate south, before the milkweed dries up, and the nectar-flowers are gone.” The Malins thought it was too late for any monarch to have hatched out now.
Sometimes you can know something for certain, and be totally wrong!
After that intriguing message, the Malins called the author of the text, a local woman who lived nearby. “She had found out about our passion for monarchs from Tim, a Stauffer’s employee who knows us well”. After a brief phone conversation, she agreed to drop off the insect. When they returned, there was a cardboard box sitting on their front porch. Inside was a perfect monarch butterfly.
Monarchs typically live 2-4 weeks, but the last generation born in late summer can live 9-10 months, so that they can make the trip down to Mexico, and then return north in the spring. When the Malins looked at the butterfly in the box, they realized two things: it was a male, and the dark tips of its wings marked it as a migrator. But he couldn’t make the 2500 mile trip now!
“I guess we have an overwintering monarch till springtime!” said Lindy, known as the Butterfly Lady.
“Better stop for some red Gatorade!” said Philip. All the flowers and nectar plants are gone now. But red Gatorade on a q-tip is one of the monarch’s favorite treats – that and leftover Christmas fruit salad.
So Good King Wenceslaus, as the Malins called him, will make his home with them until warm spring days arrive, bringing flowering gardens with them. Then he can seek his own queen, when the grandchildren of the fall monarchs return to Lancaster County.
Local couple Lindy & Philip Malin received an unexpected, kingly gift on that day: a box containing a monarch butterfly! What’s so unusual about that gift is that all the other monarch butterflies, from Ontario in Canada and all points south have long ago migrated down to their winter habitat in the mountains of Mexico!
“It all began with a mysterious text we received on Saturday,” said Philip “A lady said she had a newly hatched monarch butterfly, and could we help her!” The Malins were doubtful but very curious. They spend their summer months rescuing raising and releasing monarch butterflies, through their program, Malins’ Monarchy now in its 20th year. This year they rescued 2300 throughout Lancaster. But all that usually comes to an end in the first week of October. At least that was what they documented in their recently published book Monarch Flutterbys. “The butterflies all migrate south, before the milkweed dries up, and the nectar-flowers are gone.” The Malins thought it was too late for any monarch to have hatched out now.
Sometimes you can know something for certain, and be totally wrong!
After that intriguing message, the Malins called the author of the text, a local woman who lived nearby. “She had found out about our passion for monarchs from Tim, a Stauffer’s employee who knows us well”. After a brief phone conversation, she agreed to drop off the insect. When they returned, there was a cardboard box sitting on their front porch. Inside was a perfect monarch butterfly.
Monarchs typically live 2-4 weeks, but the last generation born in late summer can live 9-10 months, so that they can make the trip down to Mexico, and then return north in the spring. When the Malins looked at the butterfly in the box, they realized two things: it was a male, and the dark tips of its wings marked it as a migrator. But he couldn’t make the 2500 mile trip now!
“I guess we have an overwintering monarch till springtime!” said Lindy, known as the Butterfly Lady.
“Better stop for some red Gatorade!” said Philip. All the flowers and nectar plants are gone now. But red Gatorade on a q-tip is one of the monarch’s favorite treats – that and leftover Christmas fruit salad.
So Good King Wenceslaus, as the Malins called him, will make his home with them until warm spring days arrive, bringing flowering gardens with them. Then he can seek his own queen, when the grandchildren of the fall monarchs return to Lancaster County.
