MrLundScience | Raising Monarchs - Preventing NPV & Other Infections (Help The Monarch Butterfly) @MrLundScience | Uploaded August 2017 | Updated October 2024, 3 days ago.
NPV - Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
Recently, I had an outbreak of, well, something. Not sure what. Some symptoms indicate NPV, but it could have been a bacterial infection. Either way, it took out eventually 31 of my Monarchs (25 at the time of filming this). That was almost a third of how many I had taken in up to that point. Never again...
Whether it was NPV or a bacterial infection, many have been asking for what to do about NPV (especially those who have a large amount of it in their region). Well, this video will explain to you what Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus is, some quick facts about how it operates and spreads, what to do in the case of an outbreak, and finally, how to *prevent* it.
And here's some great news: The prevention method shown will treat your leaves and help prevent not only NPV, but *also* bacterial baddies, and OE parasite spores.
If you are new to this series, I highly recommend checking out the "core" of Raising Monarchs, Parts 1 - 5, which shows in detail, how I raise Monarchs from egg to adult, and how you can too with essentially zero cost using household items.
Raising Monarchs Instructional Video Series:
youtube.com/watch?v=_I5F4AHyQHs&list=PLIJYERWSMyVrOpgo-TVIgWRFKARuT7ImT
NPV - Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus
Recently, I had an outbreak of, well, something. Not sure what. Some symptoms indicate NPV, but it could have been a bacterial infection. Either way, it took out eventually 31 of my Monarchs (25 at the time of filming this). That was almost a third of how many I had taken in up to that point. Never again...
Whether it was NPV or a bacterial infection, many have been asking for what to do about NPV (especially those who have a large amount of it in their region). Well, this video will explain to you what Nuclear Polyhedrosis Virus is, some quick facts about how it operates and spreads, what to do in the case of an outbreak, and finally, how to *prevent* it.
And here's some great news: The prevention method shown will treat your leaves and help prevent not only NPV, but *also* bacterial baddies, and OE parasite spores.
If you are new to this series, I highly recommend checking out the "core" of Raising Monarchs, Parts 1 - 5, which shows in detail, how I raise Monarchs from egg to adult, and how you can too with essentially zero cost using household items.
Raising Monarchs Instructional Video Series:
youtube.com/watch?v=_I5F4AHyQHs&list=PLIJYERWSMyVrOpgo-TVIgWRFKARuT7ImT
