All ten Caterpillars are getting fat in the butterfly cage getting ready to find a spot to make their silk buttons and start the next process of their journey to being a butterfly. It seems that all caterpillars have different personalities just like people. Some just lie around in the shade like the one below and are contented to watch the world go by. Others have to be bugging each other and causing trouble. It's as if there are 10 siblings in that cage. The rest of the tiny caterpillars in the plastic tupperware containers are about one eighth to one quarter inch long. Four little eggs opened today and are just starting to eat.
Two of the chrysalises that have been resting for several days are turning blue and will be eclosing (hatching) soon.....tomorrow or the next day. Here is one below on the left getting darker.
A message for Monarch Lovers.........
This is simple, yet important!
For all of you fellow Monarch lovers, please sign your name to the petition to help save the Monarchs:
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Tell EPA: Drop Dow's Toxic Herbicide and Save Monarchs
Tell EPA to take Dow's next-gen herbicide — Enlist Duo — off the market immediately and help bring monarch butterflies back from the brink.
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Monarch butterflies are in trouble — their population has plunged from over 1 billion butterflies 20 years ago to just 150 million this past winter.
The culprit? In large part, it's the skyrocketing overuse of toxic herbicides that is wiping out milkweed plants monarchs need to survive.
EPA has the power to help reverse this alarming decline and save monarchs by canceling its approval of Dow's new and extremely potent herbicide, Enlist Duo. But the agency is dragging its feet — and monarchs can't wait.
We need your help to turn up the heat and compel EPA to take immediate action for monarch survival!
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