Our friends the Spencers have been posting on their blog about a monarch caterpillar they hatched from an egg, watched grow and transform into a chrysalis. It has been fun to watch the progress via their blog and Emily found an egg that hatched for us. We drove down and picked up our caterpillar yesterday and brought it home. It munches on milkweed and so the kids named it Muncher. Today when we got home from the farmers market we noticed some huge milkweed growing out of the neighbors pfitzer bushes. We harvested some stalks, and we think (by using google images) that there are a few eggs on them. We will see if any caterpillars hatch. We are excited to watch the transformation of our caterpillar into a butterfly. You should really check out
Emily's posts. She has done some great research and took some fantastic pictures of their monarch.
Trying to determine if, indeed the tiny white fleck is an egg:
You can't really see Muncher because it is still so tiny
but you can see the patch of leaf it has munched:
See the little fleck on the upright leaf?
We are hoping it is a monarch egg:
7 comments:
I am so happy you finally have a caterpillar to watch. Good luck with the eggs - we're rootin' for you!
Exciting! Worms in the corner, caterpillars on the counter -- definitely cool.
Brings back memories. There was a time when we had lots of those little munchers in a bucket. The bigger they got, the louder they got, and it was amazing the amount of green stuff they'd go through! We went through the egg, caterpillar, pupae stages, although I don't think we ever had a really successful butterfly "coming out."
I'm crossing my fingers for you!
so where do you keep it while it grows?
just on the counter. It lives on the milkweed which is in a vase, which is in a big bowl.
Really the size of booger. Just wait, though.
D.
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