With my butterfly house currently occupying another species of caterpillars, I am leaving the monarch caterpillars in the garden. It has been fun finding the fat boys either on or near milkweed throughout the garden. The first monarch caterpillar is resting on a coreopsis, the Florida wildflower, while the other was chomping away on the giant milkweed.

Although we have butterflies year round in Florida, the visitors to the garden sure has multiplied since the temperatures have become a consistent 80 to 90 degrees.