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How can you prevent ants from eating monarch caterpillars?

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How can you prevent ants from eating monarch caterpillars?

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I haven’t had a problem with ants but there are wasps that lay their eggs in the caterpillars. The wasp larva eat their way out, killing the monarch caterpillar. I frequently have this problem with the caterpillars of swallowtail butterflies.

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