So here is friend caterpillar enjoying a well-deserved rest after that amazing show he put on yesterday. Well, actually he is now friend pupa because he is no longer a caterpillar. So now we begin a new calendar: counting down ten days (more or less) till he emerges as a butterfly.
To keep him company, we found some new and exciting friends for him. After a nature walk yesterday, we found some milkweed and brought home one leaf with an egg on it (too small for a photo) and another with a first instar (the monarch caterpillar goes through five moltings and each molting is identified as an instar). I know he's kind of hard to see, but he's there in the middle, the right most smudge on the leaf. He's been happily nibbling on this leaf for two days and has made a delicate, lacy pattern from his nibblings.
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