I haven't planted much milkweed for the monarchs this year, just two in the spring. There were several volunteers that did well for them as well. It rained almost every day, so the usual summer activity was curtailed.
However, more than a dozen hatched successfully over the course of the summer. Yesterday I saw two courting near the milkweed.
A few minutes ago, something caught my eye as I was uncovering my car. I thought it was a yellow leaf. Then I saw the black veins. The spider was right there, about to deliver the coup de grace. I waded into the passion vine with a stick too short to reach it, went and got a longer stick and waded in again. I pulled the web down and it lodged on a camellia branch. I pulled at the web, both spider and monarch fell into the passion vine, and the monarch freed itself and flew away high.
To the spider I said, you snack on something else. That one's endangered.
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