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Wonderbunnie Designs launches Non-Medical Mask Fundraiser to Help Proycon Wildlife
Procyon Wildlife is excited to announce that Wonderbunnie Designs has launched a Fundraiser on our behalf. For every mask sold at $10.00 each, 50% of the proceeds will be donated to Procyon Wildlife.
Wildlife Rehabilitation centres, such as Procyon, do not receive government funding so fundraising events are crucial to our survival. Fewer funds mean fewer babies that we can save.
When Shannyn of Wonderbunnie Designs learned that our fundraising events were cancelled due to COVID-19, she decided to lend a helping hand. She is offering stylish reuseable non-medical masks for sale in a variety of different colours and designs.
Unfortunately, for the foreseeable future, the coronavirus is now a sad reality. As a result, many stores and public places are now requiring people to wear face coverings when indoors and when physical distances of 6 feet cannot be maintained.
People are scrambling to get non-medical masks, so why not check out the Wonderbunnie Designs Facebook page and order yours today?
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There are few feats more gruelling in the natural kingdom than the mass migration of the Eastern Monarch Butterflies. Their impressive journey–one of the longest migrations of any insect– spans 3000 miles, from southern Canada all the way to their wintering ground, located amidst the soaring ranges of the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico. Come October, around 500,000 third or fourth generation Monarchs fly south, averaging 50-100 miles a day. The whole trip takes just under a month, right in time to commence Day of the Dead celebrations–where monarchs are believed to hold the spirits of the departed. There, they will roost temporarily in the lush foliage, passing time till their return migration the following spring.
A female butterfly will deposit her eggs on milkweed leaves and flowers using a small amount of adhesive. After 3-5 days the egg darkens and the caterpillar becomes visible through the egg. The caterpillar will then munch its way out of the egg and then gobble up the remaining egg for nutrients. The monarch caterpillar goes through 5 instars before moving into the pre-pupation stage (11 to 18 days), devouring milkweed voraciously and molting between each instar. The pre-pupa stage lasts 12-24 hours where the monarch caterpillar first attaches itself by its silk to a carefully chosen, although sometimes precarious surface. This stage is also called the “J”, because of the way they hang, which looks just like the letter. It takes only a couple minutes to wriggle out of its skin and transform into the pupa (or chrysalis). Once in pupa form, it takes 24 to 48 hours for the chrysalis to harden. Finally, after another 8 to 14 days the butterfly becomes visible through the chrysalis and emerges (or ecloses) after 12 to 24 hours. Eclosing only takes a few minutes, the butterfly then hangs and allows their wings to fill with fluid from their abdomen, and after 4 hours of hanging and drying, the butterfly is ready to flutter away. An adult butterfly lives between 2 to 6 weeks (other than the migrators, who live 6 months), and females will lay 100 to 500 eggs, with a survival rate of about <5%.