Thanks for looking and commenting Dave! I have several other plants on the deck, waiting to be munched. I also have some perennial plants, from which I can harvest leaves.
You are lucky to be near an over-wintering site! I wanted to see one of the sites in CA, but we were there a bit too late. High on my bucket list is a trip to the Mexican forests where the huge flocks spend the winter. Maui has a small but thriving year-round resident population of Monarchs. (Where could they migrate to/from, as the nearest land is 2300 mile across the ocean?) I have, however, yet to discover any Milkweed in Maui, although there is an incredible supply of nectar plants. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* On Thu, Jul 16, 2020 at 4:52 AM David Mann <[email protected]> wrote: > I doubt the new plant will last long either! Last summer we had to buy > some more plants and put them under netting to prevent eggs. We relocated > caterpillars there as they grew and opened it up when they were pupating. > > There's a park not far from me where monarch butterflies stay over > winter. There aren't large numbers but it's very pleasant to see them on a > sunny day. It was fun showing them to my daughter last weekend. > > Cheers, > Dave > > > On Jul 16, 2020, at 5:11 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > My Monarch pupae have been growing faster than I had expected. I hadn't > > looked at them last night, and this morning, after my Zoom meeting, they > > had really plumped out, and there was nothing left of the milkweed plant > > but a few stems. I carefully moved them out of the butterfly cage, > cleared > > it out, and put in a new plant. I carefully moved them on to the new > > milkweed, and they immediately proceeded to attack in en masse. > > > > > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2020/7/16/feeding-frenzy > > > > K-5 IIs, smc 100 mm Macro F 2.8 > > Comments are invited and appreciated. > > > > Dan Matyola > > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > > -- > > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > > [email protected] > > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and > follow the directions. > -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
