Marvin has doubled in size in the past week or so. He's still on the same dill plant. I'm a little concerned, because according to teh Internets, he only eats milkweed. Tomorrow I'm taking a milkweed leaf over to his plant, just in case he's sick of dill. I bet he is. "Dill, dill, dill" he's thinking, "Sweet Baby Jesus, I'm so sick of dill."Luckily I've been growing milkweed in the garden for a few years now, specifically for monarchs. So bringing him some is no big effort. Maybe I'll use a paper clip to attach it to his dill plant. Won't that confuse the wee bug.
Remember Heimlich from A Bug's Life
? Yeah, that's pretty much what we've got going here.
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I only have your photo to go on but are you certain Marvin isn't a tomato horn worm. If he is, Marvin sucks.
No way, Jose! This is a tomato hornworm: http://www.oznet.ksu.edu/dp_hfrr/extensn/problems/hornworm.htm. My beautiful Marvin looked like the monarch caterpillars I saw on the web. (see links in post)
And anyway, don't speak ill of the dead. Marvin is missing and I've already sobbed myself dry. (ok, hyperbole, but I was sad.)
I'm pourin' a 40 out for our fallen homey Marvin as we speak....
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