Tropicals & Tender Perennials: So Karyn doesn't feel so bad, here is a sad brug, 1 by Calalily

Calalily wrote:
I'm ashamed to show this. It froze at Christmas, then the caterpillars ate it twice and this week has been so hot and it got too dry and the leaves turned yellow and some fell off. This is poor pitiful Whiskers.
Those are asclepias plants behind it, the monarch cats and aphids love them, so they always look ratty. I couldn't spray the cats on the brugs because I garden for butterflies and the Bt kills all caterpillars, not just the bad ones.