if you want butterflies, you need to live with caterpillars.
i am not being metaphorical, i work in a garden center, stop buying plants 'to bring in the bees and butterflies' and then immediately poisoning every caterpillar that dares to consume a single leaf
you will not get butterflies if you kill all the things that turn into butterflies! what are you doing!
This! I have 3 different varieties of local milkweed and a vigorous passionflower vine, and when I see them getting chewed up by caterpillars I cheer, because they are the reason I planted the plants in the first place! The plants will survive and recover, and the new generation will lay more eggs to keep my garden fluttering! No pesticides on my property!

























