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Monarch Caterpillar

Danaus plexippus

Photo by Lynn Cremona
Published on Project Noah
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Field Notes

Description:

Black, yellow, and white stripes
full grown approx. 2 inches

Notes:

Built a butterfly nursery.
Stocked it with Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca)
The Milkweed already had the eggs on the leaves.
After about four days the eggs hatch, they become caterpillars (larvae)
They have a voracious appetite for the Milkweed for about two weeks, and then go into their chrysalis (pupa) stage.

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