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Thanks for your information.

They are so fast!

Why is the Giant Milkweed detrimental to the monarch population. It seems monarchs gravitate to them, lay eggs and have plenty of feed for the caterpillars?

Sue, Thanks for sharing. Isn't is sad! The flowers are in full bloom and hardly any butterflies?

I did some research on line and I agree with you. It is most likely a Mink! Thanks for pointing this out.

Yea... forget the marigold fence, if you can keep that Mink in your yard, the rabbits will go somewheres else. I realy like your property, what lovely backdrop for your butterfly videos. I live in Brooksvilke, Fl. and I'm looking at my small garden right now, and I see a Black Swallowtail, a Zebra Swallowtail, and Sulfors flying flower to flower and a Queen Butterfly laying eggs. A good day. 😁

Thanks for sharing. It is an incredible plant!

Congratulations on your caterpillars. I hope they survive to become butterflies and lay lots of eggs. Thank you for planting the milkweed!

That is depressing to hear your monarch cats are getting destroyed. I struggle with the swallowtail caterpillars as the birds and wasps seem to decimate these caterpillars.

@@davethebutterflyguy9841Yes wasps are the absolute worst for the swallowtail 😢

The video of the otter was from a distance so it looked small. I am pretty sure it is an otter as we have seen a family of otters playing and foraging down in the lake behind our house this summer. Otters are also know to eat small mammals if they are able to catch them. It is so black which also leads me to think it is an otter. Although, mink and weasels have similar body shapes, so you may be right that it is something other than an otter. Thanks for watching!

Sorry to hear you also haven't seen many butterflies this summer. This has been a mild summer here with lots of rain. Yet, still not many butterflies. I think the lack of snow and warm temperatures this past winter hurt the butterflies that overwinter.

Brandy, I also love hyssop! I have 4 hyssop plants, but they haven't bloomed yet. Were you sad to see the butterfly bush because it is know to be invasive? I have grown a few of these plants. In the north they seem to die out after a couple of cold winters? Thanks for sharing.

@@davethebutterflyguy9841 my hyssop was half the size it normally is this year and bloomed a little later than normal. I hope yours bloom soon for you! Yes, the invasive tendencies of butterfly bush but everything else in your gardens look absolutely beautiful and thriving!! The rain this summer in the midwest has been much appreciated.

Cindy, thanks for your nice message. I am so appreciative of you watching the videos. Good Luck with your garden!

Thanks for your message. This year has been so much wetter and milder in the upper midwest. My Liatris is back and finally healthy. I am super excited about year two of my Meadow Liatris, it is just ready to bloom for the first time. I have monarchs hanging on it already. Take care and good luck with your garden!

@@davethebutterflyguy9841 We have had just the opposite weather pattern. we have broken so many records I can't keep up with them and it has been like living in hell trying to keep my gardens alive. I'm glad you have had cool wet weather. We aren't used to the weather we have had here this summer and the smoke from all the fires in the west is thick when you go outside.

I bought it at the home improvement store Menards. Although it was easy to install, the fencing is made of cloth so the rabbits can eat thru it. They have done this twice in two years which isn't bad. Otherwise it has kept the pesky rabbits out.

This moth has been around a long time and can raise havoc with milkweed. I have had them twice on my milkweed and I have made the decision to eradicate them from the milkweed. I think the Tussock moths are part of the natural world and aren't a significant issue. The bigger issue is the reduction of milkweed for monarchs and the Tussock moth. Good luck, deciding what to do with your moths.

They are both in the same scientific family, Apocynaceae. However, the Giant Milkweed is not in the same genus, Asclepias.

Yes, I raised 4 caterpillars into Monarchs in May and have not seen any additional eggs or caterpillars. Finally this week I started to see a few monarchs hanging out in the garden. A very slow June and July?

Definitely in the mint family! Should be great for butterflies and rabbits should stay away. Good Luck!

That is fabulous. Keep checking the parsley for the young caterpillars. Butterflies love the Zinnias!

They are spectacular!

Easy to make! Good Luck!

Your welcome! Good luck!

I agree with you. I need chicken wire for my fencing. The rabbits eat thru plastic so quickly.

Excellent!

Your welcome, good luck!

Squirrels are crafty buggers!

Thanks for watching the video. I have not heard that I look like a younger Robert De Niro, so I am not sure what to think of that. I'll have to bring up some of his younger shots and take a look. I hope your summer is going well!

I think the metal works best. Squirrels could eat through the plastic. However, it may work for a while until the crafty squirrels figure out to do with it. Thanks for watching!

Squirrels are very clever, however, this is still working for me. Good Luck!

Thanks for sharing. I hadn't heard this story, yet I do believe that planting milkweed is the key to the monarchs survival. Every little bit helps!

​@@davethebutterflyguy9841 Yes, absolutely. It also goes to show it doesn't take that much to make a big difference if just two acres seeded with milkweed is showing up in migration patterns. I bet there are a lot of farmers and land owners with fallow fields that would be happy to seed them with milkweed if they knew how beneficial it would be. 2 acres is nothing for a lot of these folks in the country. Or even parks departments and municipalities or corporate parks and college campuses. Everyone needs to chip in to save our pollinators.

Thanks for thinking about the butterflies. I made a video a few years ago about placing a butterfly feeder in my garden. The liquid in it is similar to a hummingbird feeder. However, I never see butterflies on the feeder except when I place rotting fruit on it. So, I don't think you will get butterflies with a hummingbird feeder, however, I do think if you place fruit out, such as oranges, bananas, berries, especially once they are getting a bit old and starting to rot, you will get butterflies. Here is a link to the butterfly feeder video. ua-cam.com/video/09lZRSNYkKI/v-deo.html

They are tricky. We have tried greasing the pole and they still seemed to climb it. They are good jumpers so it doesn't surprise me they jumped from the roof. The slinky has worked for a few weeks now. I believe this is the magic way to keep them off the feeder.

Glad it was helpful! Best of Luck!

Hopefully not. As they go through their stages of development there could be some juices that drip out. If it survives it should be a butterfly within 2 weeks. I would appreciate you letting me know if it makes it. Good luck!

​@davethebutterflyguy9841 i hope not as well, just wondered if you had ever experienced it. Thanks much for the quick reply.

In My experience, if you compromise the Chrysalis and any fluid leaks out, it will die. I'm hoping you had success, but I have a feeling it would have made it by now. So sorry. 😢

@davethebutterflyguy1841 When teaching people to tie it to dental floss, please mention that if they break the creamaster it's history and to be very careful not to break it!! I honestly thought you were going to try to rehang a catapillar that had fallen. No can do unless it fell with the creamaster which I've not ever seen happen unfortunately. They're usually sick and don't make a good silk button. 😕 😢

Well done!

Interesting as I just relayed a story I heard about a guy who grew a 1/4 acre of milkweed and raised several hundred and had a few thousand monarchs and then the next year he did 2 acres and they remembered and came back and brought friends and he got tens of thousands and his property was showing up on migration maps. Just 2 acres in one year.

Thanks for sharing! Zinnias and Butterfly Bush do great in my garden. However, Hyssop, seems to get the most action. Thanks for creating all your butterfly habitat!

Wow, you have a Mourning Cloak nursery! To survive in the city, they need access to host plants like willows, elm, aspen and birch trees. As an adult butterfly they need access to food like rotting fruit, sap and nectar. I would think these food items are located in the city but it is surprising.

You can get composted manure at most garden/landscape stores. Including, Home Depot, Menards, Lowes. Good Luck!

So nice of you!

Sounds great! Lavender is a great smelling plant, I think you will like it. Bee Balm is hearty and expands quickly. I planted a couple of plants and now they take up a big part of the garden as they grow through seeds and rhizomes. Good Luck!

I think so too! Although, I do have a passion for the butterflies!

Thank you for sharing. These are incredible plants!