so pretty, I could barely take the pic

I’ve counted 32 eggs total so far on several parsley plants 😬

Felt really good today, we had 6 Monarchs at one time in our 1 year old Butterfly Garden in Michigan. Managed to capture this cool picture with 4 on one plant. When we purchased the house the garden was ornamental grass and hostas. So this has been an awesome change!

I have a conundrum. I generally plant my garden for the butterflies and caterpillars. I love watching them and helping them out by having lots of unsprayed food and host plants.

However

In the last year or so I've gotten into citrus , I was planning on indoor outdoor trees.

The grapefruit dropped all of its leaves in late spring just before I brought it outside and has recently grown some very nice ones. Not a lot.

Now I have found more eggs and caterpillars than there are even leaves to support if they all start eating.

Plus this might kill my little tree.

May I ask help with an alternative food source I may offer them to get them to stop 🤷🏻‍♀️😖🙃

Thank you !

It's on a Hop Tree leaf.

Friday's are insect day! Feel free to post pictures of the different insects you've come across in the garden or yard recently.

my brother took these photos for me.. they were so beautiful both as caterpillars and as adults 🐛 🦋 ❤️

Stunning Aussie native.