Monarch Caterpillar Nursery Round 2
While we haven't actually seen one recently there has clearly been a Monarch Butterfly around laying eggs, since we spied 3 caterpillars on our milkweed plants the other day. This is the second batch this yea,r with more to come as we can see more eggs on the milkweed plants.
Anticipating a number of hungry Monarch Caterpillars, we ventured out to Armstrong Nursery this morning for several more milkweed plants with lots of leaves. Hopefully it will be enough as the caterpillars are voracious eaters.
We also noticed a number of small critters on the plants we had that look like tiny spiders (mites?) so we also bought a box of ladybugs to hopefully take care of the problem without using any kind of spray, especially with the caterpillars around.
Hopefully there will be enough food to keep the ladybugs content and well fed so they don't leave.
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