Rare caterpillars has landed on our milkweed!!! #caterpillar #perennials #nativeperennials

¡Hey, guys! It's Bailey with TN Nursery, and I want to show you our little monarch caterpillars that's landed on our milkweed. Now, this is our older bed of milkweed. We don't really dig out of it, and, uh, they have landed on it, the monarchs has, and laid their little eggs, and it's just full of monarch caterpillars. And this is just a testimony of showing how one native plant can save a whole generation of monarchs. Now they don't spray where we're at up here in, uh, Tennessee. You know, they spray for mosquitoes nearly everywhere now, but they don't spray up here, so they ain't really endangered where we're at. But the whole monarch population has declined 90% in the last 5 years, and they're expecting the next 5 years they'll be completely extinct. The only plant that they'll lay their eggs on and live off of is the milkweed. Butterfly milkweed and swamp milkweed and just regular milkweed. The hybrid milkweeds they're making nowadays just is not cutting it. They don't, they don't raise on it. So you need a native type of milkweed and you could save generations of butterflies. One drift of the new spray that they have to, you know, kill mosquitoes, one drift of it can kill a whole generation of monarchs. It's not only killing mosquitoes, it's killing dragonflies. Dragonflies are becoming extinct because of it, and monarch butterflies, you know, are going extinct. But this is just a testimony showing y'all how one little plant can save a rare species. And there, these caterpillars are everywhere. They've ate the far out of the leaves. They ain't hardly no leaves left on this milkweed. But shop now at tianursery.net and save the monarchs.