Summertime and CATERPILLARS

We have let a few Butterfly Weed (AKA Milkweed I think) naturalize around our garden area.  They are one of the few foods for butterfly caterpillars (along with flatleaf parsley, which is out front).

But it has been years since I saw guests take advantage of our spread.  This year we have a number of beautiful yellow and black caterpillars munching away.  They eat prodigiously, and you can darn near watch them growing.

I think these beauties will be swallowtail butterflys shortly.

Oh, and our first green bean is moving along well too.