Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Wine Rack staging platform, 1 by thea611

thea611 wrote:
Junebug, I used a wrought iron plant stand with lots of curlicues and it wasn't an overwhelming success either, I thought I was so clever putting it in the crate! Out of 24 cats, only 7 settled on it, and one chrysalis fell off it. Most of my guys seemed to prefer the mesh on the sides of the crate, or the fabric surrounding the mesh. I stuck sticks in foam, thinking they might like them to pupate on, but though they climbed up them (maybe for exercise!) in their wandering, not one chose them for pupating on. But Cat, your idea is good, next year I'll try roughing up the surface of the plant stand a little! That one chyrsalis fell off, maybe because the surface was too smooth (and I think one of the wanderers probably jiggled it a little).