Thank you for asking about Precious. We had a tag team of people caring for her all week and she seems ok. She is getting sores on her knees from sitting so long and it is fly season. We put up fly paper and sticky traps and we have a natural repellent that we spray. We have been putting neosporin on the sores and hoping that prevents infection. Precious got visitors this week from some high school kids who drove out to see her when they heard she wasn't doing well. I can't tell if she remembered them. They say sheep can remember people for at least five years, so who knows about llamas. The potato beetle predator situation is interesting. Potato leaves carry nightshade toxins and are poisonous. That is why you shouldn't eat green potatoes. But the beetles have figured out through evolution how to survive the poison and they incorporate it into their body tissues. This makes them taste bad to potential predators, like birds. There are some insects that eat the eggs and young larvae, like ladybugs. We try to have flowers nearby our vegetable crops in order provide sources of nectar and pollen for predatory insects. But the scale of the potato beetle invasion overwhelms the predator population. One possible way to avoid the beetles is to wait to plant until mid july. That way the potato beetles that overwintered in the soil have no food source in May and June, and they fly or walk away. But we have a class of students that always plants the potato crop in May, so we are committed to May planting. Maybe we take a year off?