When I am raising my Monarch larvae, they get to a point where they devour large amounts of milkweed leaves every day. Monarchs are milkweed eating machines, and they are also pooping machines! This poop, called frass, is expelled as little dark green blobs. To keep the larvae healthy, one must clean out the cage daily. This is the devastation they cause: http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2022/6/7/storm K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited Comments, criticisms, questions, and suggestions are invited and appreciated. Dan Matyola *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>*

The stripped plants are a familiar sight here. We usually put them under netting which we can close up to prevent too many eggs being laid on them. Our plants survived last season in pretty good shape. As ours are in the garden we don't need to worry about the excrement :) Cheers, Dave > On Jun 7, 2022, at 5:19 PM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmatyola@gmail.com> wrote: > > When I am raising my Monarch larvae, they get to a point where they > devour large amounts of milkweed leaves every day. Monarchs are milkweed > eating machines, and they are also pooping machines! This poop, called > frass, is expelled as little dark green blobs. To keep the larvae healthy, > one must clean out the cage daily. > > This is the devastation they cause: > > http://dan-matyola.squarespace.com/danmatyolas-pesos/2022/6/7/storm > > K-5 IIs, smc DA 35 mm F 2.8 Macro Limited > Comments, criticisms, questions, and suggestions are invited and > appreciated. > > Dan Matyola > *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery > <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-leave@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.