When we bought the Caterpillar Castle from www.livemonarch.com, they suggested that we should clean the cage with a 5% bleach solution after each group of butterflies had used it.
"Why would we need to do that?" we wondered.
Oh.
It's called "frass."
Turns out that caterpillars do nothing but eat and poop. All day. Every day.
The three of them have been in their castle for a week now and it's pretty clear that it will have to be thoroughly cleaned of the frass after they hatch.
It's a good thing they don't spend any time on the floor of their cage. Yuk.
Of course, I couldn't resist pointing out to Cindy that that's NOTHING compared with what three chickens could put out.
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