Got Milk...

Weed? We have a heckuva lot of monarch caterpillars noticed today. I was complaining that we've had monarchs laying eggs everyday and I hadn't really seen any...well boy did they creep up over night! I counted 15 on one small plant (second pic shows them all, can you find them? Click to enlarge) and we have at least that many or more in another location. So I am off to the nursery to pick up some more milkweed today. They are $4 a piece. We bought 7 last week and had a few already in the yard that grow naturally. Today I will get 4 more. A monarch was here laying eggs this morning and yesterday too. Feels like a monarch farm here! Oh and I forgot to mention, I saw at least three big fat fella's crawling away from the plant this morning to go make their J somewhere. I wanted them to stay close by so I could locate them and watch/photograph the process but the ungrateful bastards went and hid on me. I've looked and looked and have no idea where they went. Probably crawled over to the neighbors who do absolutely nothing to help them in regards to habitat or food like we do. Likely have no idea they even exist.