Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Help Save The Monarchs! Raising monarch butterflies, 1 by joycet

joycet wrote:
Just thought I'd pop in to tell you my Monarch tale.

I planted two incarnate last year. No action even though I did have a few blooms. I did see one Monarch in the garden which was one more than I saw the year before. This year at least 5 plants came up. I had many aphids and black and red bugs. They didn't however, stop the Monarchs from laying eggs.when I saw my first cats I went to the store and picked up a net laundry hamper. That night I collected 11 cats. A few days later I noticed more cats so I got a second hamper. I collected 15 more cats. A few days later I found more, so bought a third hamper. I collected 22 cats. Several of the last batch didn't make it, but 17 did become beautiful Monarchs. So I released 43 Monarchs in my garden this year. It was so satisfying to help these beautiful miracles.