The case of the marching bugs

I noticed recently that the crop of milkweed bugs which were hatching on my Asclepias had suddenly decided to put on a show. They marched off the milkweed pods en masse to the scrolling metal trim at the top of a stake which was supposed to keep the plant from drooping.

OK, I get that. A much more artistic location. But from a bug's eye view? Not sure about that, but they must have felt the spirit to march off in that direction. I wonder if they heard music leading them on?  Was it Claude Debussy's Deux Arabesques?

I may never know. But this morning, one of the milkweed pods opened and the fluff covered seeds emerged, waiting for the wind to carry them away.

The bugs also marched off somewhere else and only a couple of the stragglers remained. I'm sure they knew what they were doing, but it made me wonder. Maybe they got their marching orders. Was it Franz Schubert's Marche Militaire? 

Strange stuff going on in my yard at night.

Straight from the garden of Carolyn Roland, Your Older and Historic Homes Resource.