Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help! cats on my single milkweed plant, 1 by pyromomma

pyromomma wrote:
NEW STUFF!! SEE BOTTOM OF THREAD!!
I have a new monarch!!

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I am so thrilled, I have caterpillars (I think they are monarchs) on my milkweed.
But now I am very worried!
I counted and there are about 10 that I see (all very very small).
I only have one large milkweed plant (got it full-grown from a local plant store on a whim --- wish I had bought all of them!).
Will there be enough plant to feed them?
Should I just leave them alone or should I be 'helping' them in some way?

I am very new to this, and so excited that I have caterpillars, but now I am afraid that I will do something wrong! I will not allow insecticides around them, that is for sure.

Lorie in SC



This message was edited Sep 12, 2008 1:05 PM