Hungry Mouths

In addition to ourselves, Ted and I feed a few other creatures…

Oops - put suet on the grocery list...

…right after dog treats.
We have a few fish too. An almost-full can of fish food went into Toby's gullet last week. *sigh*

 But for two weeks now, we've had a number of other hungry mouths to feed. Twenty-two were in the first wave of monarch caterpillars. A week later we had nine more!

So, as the first group became chrysalises, the second was voracious with a lot of growing to do. I was worried about our four little milkweeds having enough leaves for them!

Thankfully, today they've started looking for spots to attach and pupate. 

Our decimated milkweeds made it to the finish line - barely.

"May I join you?"

 And then yesterday Ted looked up and found a lone escapee who somehow got halfway across the gazebo and up to its ceiling!