Sounds like things really are pickin' up at your place, Sandy - great! That's a lot of monarch eggs!!
I don't know of any butterfly or moth that uses salvia, so it must be some generalist moth. Speaking of red admiral nests, I found one little RA cat in its leaf nest on one of the big false nettle clumps here, but also found a few empty nests where the cat appears to have been eaten - I really need to learn how to find RA eggs so I can rescue them earlier.
Sherry

That is great! 50+ Monarchs eggs, WOW! Still theres no Monarchs here on LI :( but they should be soon. You have a lot of butterflies now, I only have a few BST cats and a chrysalis, an Io cat, and Automeris Zephryia eggs. Soon there should be more eggs that Im ordering. Good luck with everything.
The little cats on salvia may be armyworms... thats what were on mine.
S.B.

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SB,

I figure the second wave of Monarchs is starting North. I didn't see them around here until about two weeks ago. They left me with lots of souvenirs! My BF population has exploded since the last week of June. But most of what I have are skippers. There are several different kinds of little guys that play tag all day long. Good luck with your eggs that you ordered.