Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Share photos of your cat cages, 1 by LouisianaMark

LouisianaMark wrote:
Here's my cage which I made out of plywood, 2 by 4s, 1 by 2s, netting, and some castor wheels that I got on ebay. The front is a door that allows easy access to the entire cage. I made it relatively tall so that I could put in some citrus trees in 3 gallon pots. I've used it for 3 summers now, and it has held up fairly well, although I wish I would have painted it. I usually keep it under the covered patio, since the summer temps are probably 10 degrees cooler there than in the yard.

It really was not difficult to make. Although I used my table saw, a hand-held circular saw or even a regular hand saw would have worked for cutting the frame parts. The netting is staple-gunned to the frame.

The photo was taken in the early spring last year, when all I had in it was a milkweed plant. You can see a monarch chrysalis hanging on the pot.

Mark