Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 39, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
Well, I'm on vacation next week in West Virginia so y'all will have to live without me for a little while. I'm rounding up all the critters to take to MOSI so they'll have a good home (except the Zebra STs - grandma has pawpaw trees in her yard). Whatever laid eggs on the milkweed - probably Monarchs but we do get Queens here - has hatched and begun eating. So I expect to come back and have little stubs where there was once milkweed. They even found the plants that I had hidden in the corner. Actually, I threw some milkweed seeds out there a few months ago, forgot what they were, and only figured it out recently once they got tall enough. They haven't even bloomed yet and I've already got eggs on them!

I also started my first veggie garden this year. Since it was late spring I only tried a few plants to kind of figure out how I was going to do this. With all the recent rain, my beans have resprouted with a vengeance. Of course, this meant that Long-Tailed Skipper in my yard wasn't just looking for nectar. Check out the caterpillar I found!