About a month a month ago we noticed several bushes had a large number of caterpillars on them. We posted a photo of those ravenous little crawlers and a friend said to just let them eat away. One they won’t kill the plant and two, the will turn into the beautiful Theona Checkerspot Butterfly. We looked them up online and had to agree they were certainly beautiful. We never did get to see them when the completed their life cycle and took flight, but we do get to see our now dead bush. In natures battle of the survival of the fittest, the bush lost out. Besides, we really didn’t like that bush anyway.