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This is the first year I’ve started growing caterpillars. I’m loving it and have already been given the title of Crazy Caterpillar Lady by my husband. I managed to get 9 out of 11 caterpillars into butterflies last month.
This month I’ve been given a few caterpillars which I am keeping inside in a caterpillar castle. I am quickly running out of food for them. I had several small swan plants in pots which I was using, but now I’ve only got one kind of spindly plant left outside (not in a pot) and I’d like to bring cuttings from it inside to feed my caterpillars.
Any tips on how to go about doing this? Just break leaves off and put them on the floor of the castle? Hang them up somehow? cut off a whole branch and put it in water somehow? I want the plant to grow back nicely for next season, so would cutting full branches off cause the plant not to grow back?
I did break a chunk off and put it into the castle last night before bed and noticed it was untouched this morning before work. I guess the caterpillars go quiet at night time? Or were they just not aware I had put the chunk of leaves there?
It is all so interesting!
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