“We're all vulnerable. Mix the wrong feelings together, the right kind of bad with the wrong kind of good, and you'll wind up with a total breakdown.”
~ Caterpillar from Alice

While cruising around the Container Butterfly Garden this week,

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I came upon mas grande Monarch butterfly caterpillars than those posted the last time. Looks like the season is well on its way to being a productive year!

-Andrew Kliss

Fat cat on an Asclepias curassavica.

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Little one on my Asclepias fascicularis.

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Another fat cat munching away on Gomphocarpus physocarpus.

There is an easy way to identify whether a Monarch butterfly is either male or female.

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“When a caterpillar bursts from its cocoon and discovers it has wings, it does not sit idly, hoping to one day turn back. It flies.”

~ Kelseyleigh Reber

Some of the first Monarch caterpillars found in the Container Butterfly Garden! I spotted two last week, but lost one to what I believe is predation or possibly disease, and the other, I have no clue.

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Cat munching away on A. curassavica leaves.

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Little, tiny guy keeping company with a Monarch butterfly egg thrown in for kicks!