Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: My First Caterpillar :o) Now what?, 1 by donlaclair

donlaclair wrote:
Give the cat some time,i don't think it's pinning for any open fiords.I think its got alot of things going on inside it's body.
Here's a pic of my cage.I've got 3 differant cats in it right now about 50 monarch cats,10 or so BST cats,and a few cloudless Sulfurs. It's a collage of just BST on the parsley and fennel. sorry about the poor quality
Don
PS there is the chrysalis right under the little yellow arrow under the Daves Garden copyright stuff. The other picture are so blurry you can't even see the BST cats on the fennel and parsley plants sorry
About the cage,it's 6x6x6 made out of 2x2's and screen.it's got shelves on three sides half way up .
I plant all my larva host plants in 1,3 ,5 gallon pots so I can put them in the cage to feed the cats.
when I water my plants I'm kinda allways looking for cats.When I see butterfly's hangin round the plants they lay there cats on then I keep my eye on the plants.But,like BST cat's I never saw the butterfly ever go close to the pots of parsley. I've only been doing this butterfly/hummingbird gardening thing since Jan/Feb so I'm just learning too.It sure has taken up all my spare time but sure is fun!
Don

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