We have quite a bit of milkweed in our garden, and get a lot of those caterpillars, too - the milkweed reproduces, anyway. It's a beautiful cycle. Milkweed grows, procreates, attracts butterflies, gets eaten almost all their leaves, caterpillars turn into puppets, the leaves grow again, and so on.
For a better Hive-Experience (and more interaction), I recommend to try out posting in communities. There is #hivegarden for example: created/hive-140635
You can follow the community, and afterwards also create posts in that community. When you subscribed to the community, just go to "Create a post", and change the "write a new post in" section:
The communities you subscribed to will show up, and you can write directly there. Most communities have rules on the right side of the screen, please always read those!
We don't have a Cotacachi community (yet), but there is one for #Ecuador:
See you around :-)
RE: The Joy of Growing Milkweed and Monarch Butterflies