Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars
nature·@violetmed·
0.000 HBDMonarch Butterfly Caterpillars
<h3>*Several years ago I planted some milkweed seeds to attract Monarch butterflies to lay eggs in my yard. I never found any caterpillars on the plants. Some years I would just pull it up and plant other things in it's spot. Well, I guess it was busy reseeding itself and it came back every year. I let the milkweed plants stay put this year and was very surprised to find a couple of Monarch caterpillars on the plants about 10 days ago. Here are some photos from that day.*</h3> <center> ___  ___  ___ <h3>The smaller caterpillar was busy eating the milkweed! ___  ___ ___ <h3>The next morning I looked for the very large caterpillar and it was nowhere to be found. I hoped it had crawled off somewhere to find a suitable place to make a change to a chrysalis. ___ I really wanted to watch the last little caterpillar go through its stages, so I decided to set it up with the milkweed plants and some nice sticks to crawl around on inside of a large plastic jar with cheesecloth on top. I've done this before with other caterpillars.</h3> ___  ___  ___  ___  ___ Five days ago I noticed it crawling all over all of the sticks and it wasn't interested at all in eating. Later that night it had decided on the perfect spot and attached itself to begin its transformation into a chrysalis. It transformed this next morning and here is the beautiful chrysalis!</h3> ___  ___  ___ So now I'm in the waiting game. The adult butterfly will emerge in 10-14 days from the day it transformed into a chrysalis. ___ I live in the the Dallas,Texas area which is in the fly zone for Monarch butterflies. What does that mean? Well, when they migrate north from their wintering grounds in Mexico in the spring they pass through here. When they migrate south in the fall, they pass through again. The fall migration is about to take place! I plan on releasing this butterfly to join the rest of the Monarchs to migrate. ___ *All photos taken by me @violetmed. Some on my iPhone and some on my Canon Power Shot. I hope you have a wonderful day and weekend!*</h3> ___  </center>
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