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

mwperry wrote:
Lori, there are some red wasps within the attached pic I scanned into my computer from an insect guide. They are paper wasps that live all over North America. They mostly prey on caterpillars and other insects.

Then there are the Ichneumon wasps (not pictured), some of which are reddish. The females lay a single egg on a cat's thorax and their larvae then burrow in and feed on the cat.

Thanks for the pics. You have a great setup. I continue to learn as I see new ways to rear our sweet cats.

Martha