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: