'We’re choosing our plants not only for how they can please and feed us, but also the wildlife around us.'
through the vulnerable caterpillar and chrysalis stages until they were ready to fly away in a couple of weeks.
She gave us a small takeout bowl containing our three cats and a couple of swamp milkweed leaves. The cats were a centimeter long, at most, but even at that size, the characteristic yellow, black, and white stripes were clearly visible. My kiddo promptly named them Bob, Mayonnaise, and Sparkle. “Feces?” my kiddo politely guessed. After complimenting his vocabulary, Kim explained that the technical term for caterpillar excrement is called frass, and that caterpillars produce a lot of it, because caterpillars eat a lot. “Remember the book,Our job is to feed these hungry caterpillars fresh milkweed leaves from our garden and clean out the frass every day.
The second part of the question is easier to answer. We don’t know exactly how much the monarch population has fallen or what part of its short but wide-ranging life cycle is most dangerous to its survival as a species. One well-known factor, however, is that monarch caterpillars can only eat milkweed leaves, and adult monarchs rely on nectar from native wildflowers for feeding.
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