Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Feeding Monarch/Queen Caterpillars, 1 by burg1111

burg1111 wrote:
Hi there! I am new to this forum and ran across your posts about moanrch cats. I have had three or four cats die on my plants (tropical milkweed) in the past two weeks. At first we had tons of them, one finally spun its coccoon and the others have been dying. I find them hanging from the leaves, but they never form a coccoon, just seem limp and lifeless. If you touch it, it will reattach to the leaf, but a few minutes later it just hangs. After a few days, it is either gone or dead on the ground. My milkweed is fairly new, (about two months old) and I have one success, but none since. I have more milkweed seedlings I am getting ready to plant, but they aren't nearly large enough to support cats yet. How do I prevent all this loss? Thanks for any input, and your method for feeding is ingenious!