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22 Ag Families-Fall Rewards Royal BYTONIW. RILEY Each spring Susan Chiles gently examines the leaf of a tropical milkweed plant and with her experienced eye detects a tiny white speck that is a monarch caterpillar or a cat as she calls them. Susan collects the caterpillars all summer at her Trigg County home and raises them through each stage of develop- ment until they become the regal monarch butterfly. Her efforts with the monarchs dont stop at raising them but continue through the end of summer when she and her granddaughter Lauralynn tag the butterflies as part of the Monarch Watch program an initiative through the University of Kansas that tracks monarch migration. Susan and her husband David Chiles are both well-known retired Christian County Public School teachers and naturalists known for their concern for the environment. Susan became interested in developing a habitat for monarchs after meeting other naturalists who grew milkweed and enjoyed watching the butterflies. Naturalist ignites new passion cultivatingmonarchbutterflies