We must really love these monarch caterpillars. Today, Wil and I went looking for that second site where I spotted some milkweed. The road was closed -- Beach Drive -- still affected by the torrential downpour that the DC metro area suffered from yesterday. So, we parked our car across W. Cedar Lane, crossed over to Beach and trudged through mud and debris from yesterday's storm and found the milkweed. We also found a new egg. See the little white dot by the hole on the leaf?
Here is our little instar, caterpillar #3. This is a new leaf that he is on, so he wasn't the one who chewed that big hole.
However, here is caterpillar #2, whose all day chowing results in a really messy container!
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