An UNEXPECTED Predator ☠️🐛

A SURPRISING new photo of monarch predation

February 23, 2025

Greetings Monarch Friend ,

In your last newsletter I revealed 21 tips for raising monarchs indoors.

One of the most compelling reasons to raise indoors, is to reduce the chance that predators may get to your monarchs inside their habitat cages. Many of you are familiar with lizards, mice, or parasitic wasps accessing cages, but there’s another predator you may not have thought of that can access the cage, without even entering it❗️Most likely, you have never seen this before…

New Predator PHOTO 🧐

First off, I’d like to think community member Jimmy A. for sending this. At times like this, many raisers are too upset to snap photos, but Jimmy’s quick action here will prevent this from happening to someone else in the future…maybe even you…Thanks Jimmy!

Check out this shocking photo of a soldier in action:

So remember, when you raise inside a safe space without potential predators lurking around, you’re more likely to raise happy, healthy caterpillars that reach butterhood 🦋


Have an amazing weekend,

Tony G