Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help with identifies a cacoon and also a sulfur butterfly?, 1 by brendak654

brendak654 wrote:
Wonder if it might have been more beneficial to have moved the mantise since fennel is one of the host plants for the catapillars. I also found it interesting that sometimes the female mantise eats the male (quite an appetite). Guess I don't know what the hoverflies and parasitic wasps are. I'll have to Google them. I sure know what the Japanese beetle is. As a deterent in fall of 2012 I planted garlic bulbs around all my roses and think it helped with the Japanese Beetles in 2013. Since I did not harvest the garlic from around the roses, there is again garlic around the roses (a good thing - I think). I saw one monarch today. Lots of these - do you know anything about them?