There is a plant in my garden, I don't know its name. She bears some beautiful yellow flowers. This plant attracts butterflies, they get on the leaves, then they fly away and land on another leaf then it flies and does it again. At first I didn't know why they do that but now I know.
Do you know what this butterfly is doing on my plant? It's laying its eggs on all these leaves. In a few days this plant will be full of the black caterpillars of this butterfly.
And the caterpillars will eat my plant, completely. They eat the buds, the leaves and even the tender stems. In the process from caterpillar to chrysalis they leave my plants dead and they, the caterpillars, will become big and fat.
I am not going to clean the leaves of the plant, I am going to allow nature to take its course. Even if that means that my plant is going to die.
It's not the first time. It has already done so many times, but I had never seen when the butterfly came and laid its eggs, I could only see the after, when the caterpillar invasion came out.
Aren't those Caterpillars the ones that give you an itchy rash after?