Mother-daughter mission

Noni Davis Mrok was inspired by her daughter, Bianca Underwood, a first-grade teacher at Whidby Elementary who teachers her students to protect monarch butterflies. The mom-and-daughter team created a backyard butterfly garden and started finding monarch eggs. They bought a habitat and collected caterpillars as they hatched. The caterpillars eat milkweed and then make their way to the top of the habitat to build a chrysalis, and the butterfly emerges in about a week. To date, Noni and Bianca have released 80 butterflies and should reach 150 by the end of the season. They applied to be a “Monarch Waystation” through the Monarch Watch Organization, which preserves the butterfly populations. See monarchwatch.org.

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