Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Interesting butterfly behavior, 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
I have so many monarch cats in my yard and cage right now that I am literally running out of milkweed for them. I have a total of 76 Scarlet Milkweed plants in my yard. (This includes about 25 that are in pots that I use for the cages.) They are all down to a few leaves and mostly bare stems and trunk which is also chewed down. I've pretty much lost count of the total number of cats that I currently am aware of. I don't even know how many are in the cage. (I know that there are 12 attached chyrsalis at the top of the cage and 5 hanging in a J. They are everywhere! Plus there is a desperate female Monarch who's been in my yard for the past couple days trying to find a piece of milkweed leaf to lay her eggs on. There aren't many leaves left on all my plants.

This photo I thought was kind of funny. Two cats are in a J hanging off the paper towel I have around the bottom of a potted milkweed plant. I found two more chyrsalis laying on top of the paper towel that are attached to leaves they fell off the plant. I'll be re-locating all these chyrsalis to the hatchery today sometime.

I am not feeling well. Kids in my class have been sick and I think I am coming down with something, so I took off half a day from work and now I am going to go lay down for a little while. Later.