Caterpillar

At certain times of the year we get monarch butterflies laying eggs on their preferred shrub here: the swan plant. When they hatch they grow quickly into one of these very colourful caterpillars. Many people grow swan plants to encourage the butterflies, which are quite big and colourful.

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