2026-09-08 03:15 UTC
@stellarsarah@mastodon.world My entire back yard has milkweed (native, self seeded). I remove the grass... hundreds of plants. Anytime the yard gets colonized by caterpillars, they get eaten to the ground COMPLETELY. It seems like they are evolved to deal with this, they come back fine the next year all the time.
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@stellarsarah@mastodon.world 2026-09-08 03:37
@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org this one was probably a deer, groundhog or possibly rabbit. I tend to not suspect the deer because they usually eat other things in the garden (like the sunflowers), but you never know. Luckily, there are no caterpillars this year. My milkweed plants are all babies, so they wouldn't be enough for some hungry caterpillars. Maybe next year they'll take over.