Our Backyard Habitat

This is our butterfly garden's second year and it started out a little rough. The cold winter really hurt the garden (I knew I should have covered the plants!), but after cutting the entire garden all the way back to the ground, it has grown back greener and more lush! We had our first caterpillars a few weeks ago and waited until they were really big to put them in captivity. We started out with only a couple of cats. Within a day or two they created chrysalises. Then every day we would find four or five large cats in the garden. Mika was especially good at finding them because they were often right at his eye level. One of the chrysalises fell down immediately after it was created, so I picked that one up and super-glued the hanging part to a small cloth and pinned the cloth to the top of the butterfly enclosure. I don't know if that will work out. That chrysalis doesn't look as "green" as the others...and it appears to have a small dent. We'll see. Arnold said that super-glue is probably toxic, so that may not have been the best idea. I think it's up to Mother Nature at this point. We released our second Monarch butterfly today (I'll post the video) and have 19 chrysalises, one large cat, and one medium-sized cat in captivity. We should be releasing a butterfly or two every day for the next week or so if all goes well.