Our entire front bed is full of milkweed and we're constantly watching as the caterpillars strip the plants bare, cozy up in a chrysalis, and emerge as we're returning from running errands.
@trekmom for a long time, we had to keep buying plants because we had more caterpillars than milkweed. There was one period when we hit 40 caterpillars and had to make an emergency nursery run. It's settled down to a sustainable population now but there's definitely a lot of them.
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