Showing posts with label monarch caterpillar. Show all posts
Showing posts with label monarch caterpillar. Show all posts

Monday, January 9, 2012

Monarch

First of all, these are not good pictures but when I saw these outside my window this evening, I just had to share. 
Way back this summer I bought three milkweed plants. 
Then I never planted them.
I have reasons.
Not really.
Lazy much?
The good news is, they survived. 
The heat.
The cold.
The neglect.
Then today I had my unjust reward.
This is the reason I chose milkweed in the first place.
No, not the shrivelled, dried remains of the flowers.... 
 This, this was what I found. 
 Three monarch caterpillars eating my plants. 
 It's why you need to plant them. They are all the caterpillars eat. If I'm lucky at least one will make it to be a butterfly. 
How cool is that?

I'm linking to Sidewalk Shoes for her Garden Tuesday.