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I've started a butterfly garden here in zone 10b, and planted 5 milkweed
plants. It's great to finally see monarchs in the yard and it looks like
hundreds of eggs are now on the plants. If all of these eggs hatch, I'll
evidently have hundreds of caterpillars on these 5 plants. My question is:
should some of these eggs be eliminated or should I just leave them alone?
Thnx

Barbara C.

Good question. The only British monarch I ever saw was one that had
got run over after flying across the atlantic. We get them here in the
Autumn (or Fall as you say) after storms.

I don't think that monarch larvae are given to canibalism like some
other types of caterpillar are so you may have problems if they all
hatch.

However there is a list called Dplex_l which is run by Monarch Watch.
(Danaus plexipus is the Scientific name of the Monarch)
I'd suggest asking there. For More details.

http://www.monarchwatch.org/dplex/

Neil Jones
http://www.butterflyguy.com/