Date: 02/12/2013

Number: 1

There is a little milkweed available in the garden because I kept rooting it throughout the season and planting it as quickly a possible. I am quite certain it is the Asclepias curassavica. I did try another variety of milkweed just prior to Christmas because I was desperate. I placed several of the caterpillars on it but they wouldn't touch it. I got it from a local nursery and took it back. I was told that if the caterpillar had hatched from an egg on that plant then it would have stayed on it but since I was transferring them from another type of milkweed they wouldn't eat it. What do you think ?

Santa Ana, CA

Latitude: 33.8 Longitude: -117.9

Observed by: Sandi
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