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What should you do with competing insects on a protected milkweed plant?

Pick them off so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain.

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  1. Spray them with insecticide
  2. Pick them off so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain ✔
  3. Leave them to eat the monarch eggs

Why: Scouts pick off competing insects and their eggs so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain.

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Answer: Pick them off so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain. Scouts pick off competing insects and their eggs so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain.

  1. Scouting America: Insect Study www.scouting.org/merit-badges/insect-study
    Pick off competing insects and their eggs so only monarch eggs and caterpillars remain.
    Checked 2026-11-07.

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