The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle is one of my all time favorites. Story is good, but for me, the illustrations make it!
We have a wild and wonderful gardener in our family, Am, who got several of us started on milkweed plants. As a kid, we had them in the midwest, but they were very different than the ones which are the dietary staple of the monarch butterfly. She hands out plants to whoever wants them!
This seems to be my butterfly nursery. This is only one of many fat caterpillars – hopefully they are forming cocoons and not getting snatched up by the local wildlife. Sad if they are, but hopefully not, but such is the cycle of life.
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Great video -N!
We have a local plant, known as Butterfly Weed, which is, I think, a variety of the milkweed you’re growing. It sends up cheerful orange blooms in midsummer, and the butterflies do love it. It’s a roadside plant, which is where we got some.
https://hgic.clemson.edu/butterfly-weed/
Love the monarch butterfly but don’t get them here ☹️
Sadly, like so many other insects, they are endangered. We used to see flocks of them – no more.
You are right – at least the pictures look correct. I think it used to grow a lot in CA but not sure – you always hear / read about the attrition to the monarchs in part because of attrition of the plants they feed upon.
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