Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Monarch cat, 0 by realbirdlady

realbirdlady wrote:
I was noticing that yesterday, too, even in a pretty urban area, they're all along the roads and in any cleared, undeveloped lots. I was seriously pondering getting some of those little survey flags marked "Butterfly habitat Do Not Mow". The plants are so non-descript, there's no reason folks would think they're important, but people do have a great respect for those little flags.


Speaking of eating like a maniac, with all that high-fiber diet, there's a lot of poop, too. I guess usually I see them when there are several on a plant, and they eat it to the ground in a matter of hours, so I never see the end product. However, other weekend I stumbled across this one who had somehow got a whole plant to itself. Look at those droppings! They're bigger than mouse poop! I guess logically they should contain some fabulous nutrient mix to revitalize the plant the larva just devoured?