My Entry for Qurator's Photo Quest: Insects - A Handful of Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars - Seaview, Lower Puna, Far East Big Island, Hawai'i - June 5, 2022

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Warm greetings all! šŸ™ šŸ’š

Every few days or so I check my new bed of tropical milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, for monarch butterfly caterpillars, Danaus plexippus, because they tend to completely defoliate my new milkweed plants. I gently collect them and move them to a more robust giant milkweed plant, Calotropis gigantea. There have been a lot of caterpillars lately, so I've been checking a bit more often, as they've already eaten the leaves off a couple plants entirely. I plant the milkweed in part for them, but I need to protect the plants a bit until they develop more, and until there are more of them.

In any case, the caterpillars sure are cute little buggers, and I wanted to share them with y'all!

šŸ‘‡This is my entry!šŸ‘‡ A Handful of Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars
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Thank you all so much for allowing me to share more of the beauty and magic from my life and my world with you, and for your continuous appreciation and support! I am deeply grateful! šŸ™ šŸ’š

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