JUNE 2011Half of the crown flower cuttings we planted survived and began to sprout with shoots of new crown flower leaves. One of the crown flower plants even had bloomed. We were very excited!
Eggs must have been laid on the new leaves sometime in late June, because the leaves all of a sudden looked liked swiss cheese. There obviously were hungry caterpillars munching away on the leaves. The sad thing is that there was not a caterpillar to be found on the leaves. I wondered where they had gone?Then I sadly realized that they must have become snacks for lizards, insects, spiders and birds.
Only about 10% of caterpillars survive to become butterflies.
The food chain of nature but so sad for our caterpillar friends.
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