Remember the Highlights Childrens Magazine?

In the 70's when my mom would take me to the dentist, this is the only thing I would read in the waiting room. This photo had me thinking back of their puzzles where you would find wrong things or hidden things. I need to submit this photograph if they're still around. How many caterpillars can you see? Click to enlarge image

lol. No but seriously, I counted over thirty in the two spots we have milkweed this year. There was still a dozen or more this morning at one milkweed patch. The other milkweed patch is vanished and no sight of caterpillars either. We made our last trip to Biosphere late last week for Milkweed to buy 4 more plants for a total of 11 plus the few natural I have in the yard. It's a full fledged monarch farm and boy do we have the caterpillar manure to prove it. I even had two Monarchs flirting around this morning and nectaring. One was a male for sure and I did not see any laying eggs...not that we have a spare leaf to do it but I didn't see them go to it either.