Day 6: Growing by leaps and bounds

Last Saturday, when we took caterpillar #2 home, he was so small that it took forever to find him on the milkweed leaf. Late last night I took a picture of him and he had grown so much in three days!

Today, I took another picture and it seems that he grown even more. Look how much of the leaf he has eaten.

Here he is under some magnification.

And here is the pupa on day four. About six more days to a butterfly.

And here is a picture of the egg. I am a bit worried about it -- that it might not hatch.