Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: I adopted 50-60 Monarch cats ....., 1 by beckygardener

beckygardener wrote:
We discovered this week in our garden at school there was a Monarch caterpillar population explosion! So much so that they have eaten down about 20-30 milkweed plants in a short one week period. So ..... Spring Break is coming up next week and we knew the cats would starve soon. So we called teachers at other schools and had some takers come over to adopt a bunch of our cats, but we still had sooooo many left. So I gave in and adopted the remaining 50-60 cats of all instars sizes and brought them home today. I should have taken a photo of all of them piled in a small container to transport, but was in a hurry after work due to another commitment, so didn't get a chance. It was rather amazing to see that many cats crawling around in a little 6" X 6" cube. LOL! Took me a good 15 minutes to collect them all! Students were coming by to see what I was doing and freaked out to see so many cats in one container. LOL! They all thought it was way cool! We have a lot of kids that want to take some home, but I had to explain to them that they need a specific kind of plant to eat. (Which of course they didn't have at their homes.) I saw a female again in our garden today laying more eggs. Will it ever end????!!! LOL!

This message was edited Mar 23, 2007 9:43 PM