Monarch 1 & 2

#1's chrysalis is starting to turn clear today! #2 started pupating last night. I wasn't able to watch it happen, but I did see it in its "J" form. Today, I woke up to it turned into a chrysalis...albeit a fresh one. It was really pretty too! Striped just like it was before when it was a caterpillar! Backlit...you could see the space in it too. It didn't even eat the four leaves I gave it last night.

Monarch Progress

Day 7: Molted





Sulking...No food!



Where's the food?



FOOD!



Cup packed with milkweed for Fattie while I was gone to NC:



Milkweed Paradise!



Within hours he grew to 2" long!



Day 12: Fattie was in a chrysalis when I got home from my trip :(



Went to pull the excess milkweed out so that Fattie could have a place to dry his wings when he comes out of his chrysalis and found this little guy!



Day 14: 8/10/10, you can see a faint image of the wings to be!



Day 15:

Monarch

A few days ago Adam came over for a visit, bringing the flava he got me as well as some other things he wanted to show me. As I was giving him a tour of my patch, he found a little monarch caterpillar!

This was the first day we found it...looked to be at L2 stage, 1/4" long:





Day 2:

You can tell it is getting fatter!

Look at its cute little stripey face!

Day 3:

He looks like he is about to burst!

This is how tiny he is compared to my hand!

Look how much bigger the body is than the head! Definitely a porker!

Day 4:

L3 stage. Looks like Fattie molted! Check out the new antennas!

Looking more like a caterpillar!

Day 5:

L4, Fattie must've molted again last night. Look at those loooong antennas!

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I think he was sleeping here.

I think he was sleeping here. I wish I could tell in their larval stage whether they are boys or girls. For now it's a he to me :)