OMG! Yesterday, I cleared a small strip in my garden in preparation for planting bulbs (I hope I'm not too late). There was one, small and well hidden milkweed plant and under one leaf, a bunch of eggs! They're small and yellow, and I'm hoping they're monarch eggs. The problem is that I didn't realize what I had until I had cut the plant down so now I only have the wilting stem with leaves.
What can I do to save the eggs and hopefully, hatch them? Do they need to be on a live plant to overwinter and hatch? Or can I keep them like this even though the plant will, most likely, die, and have them still hatch?
TIA!
