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Educational Science manufactures and distributes science kits, science novelties, nature kits, biotechnology education kits and equipment, and entomology kits and equipment. Educational Science products include: science kits, nature kits, butterfly rearing and breeding kits and equipment, insect artificial diets, butterfly gardening products, entomology kits, supplies and equipment, and biotechnology education kits and equipment and student and professional Microscopes. Our mission is to make science fun! Teamed with scientist and educators, we are committed to advancing science education in primary and secondary schools by developing unique educational science, life science, bio-tech and nature kits that are fun and teach kids the basic science principles.

Monarch Butterfly Conservation

Educational Science is interested in the conservation of the Monarch butterfly through habitat restoration. Unless we restore the Monarch's breeding habitats, the Monarch may not survive as a widespread North American species.

All Monarch Butterfly Farm kits come with milkweed seeds. We urge you to plant the seeds in a home or school butterfly garden. You can also purchase pesticide-free milkweed plants from us.

When the plants mature and the seed pods develop, give some to friends, neighbors, and classmates. Planting a butterfly garden with pesticide-free plants, and passing along the seeds to others, will help the Monarch butterfly survive. In this way, you can ensure the Monarch's return in the spring, and its survival into the next century.

Create a School or Backyard Monarch Butterfly Waystation Oasis

Monarch Butterfly Conservation

Each Spring, millions of Monarch butterflies migrate from their overwintering sites in Mexico ( for a view of monarchs overwintering in Mexico visit (www.educationalscience.com ) where they wait out (overwinter) the harsh winter until conditions improve---to their Spring and Summer habitats in the United States and Canada. The monarch butterfly is threatened by habitat loss and pesticide use in Mexico, North America, and Canada. To counter the loss of Monarch butterfly habitats, we need to conserve, and protect monarch habitats and provide man-made Monarch Butterfly gardens, or "Monarch Waystations".

Monarch Waystations

Monarch Waystations are places that provide man-made micro-habitats for the migrating Monarch butterfly and provide safe houses for the developing monarch eggs into adult butterflies. Monarch Waystations, or Monarch Butterfly Gardens, are an oasis for the migrating Monarch butterfly, in which Monarch host and food plants are planted for monarchs to produce successive generations and sustain their migration.

Monarch Safe Houses

After gravid monarch females have deposited eggs on the milkweed, a safe house screened enclosure can be provided to protect the eggs and larvae from predators and to ensure the Monarch caterpillars have a safe place to pupate so that a new generation of Monarchs can be released into the wild to continue their journey to the next "Waystation". Monarch butterfly safe houses: include rearing sleeves that can be placed over the milkweed plant, pop-up butterfly cages, terrariums, Pavilions and Lepidtariums that have parasitoid proof netting which protects the developing monarchs from natural predators. By planting a Monarch Waystation you are contributing to monarch butterfly conservation, an effort that will help assure the preservation of the species and the continuation of the monarch migration.

Educational Monarch Butterfly Conservation Newsletters

Monarch Butterfly Spring Migrations

Monarch Butterfly Fall Migration

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