Buds and Butterflies http://www.budsandbutterflies.com Our Ohio Garden Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:52:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 en hourly 1 Caterpillars in action! http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=7 http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=7#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:52:55 +0000 admin http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=7 caterpillar_monarch_two.jpg

Here are two caterpillars eating milkweed. If you look carefully at the leaf in the middle upper right, you can see a small black caterpillar egg. This hatched several days later.

]]> http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?feed=rss2&p=7 How Caterpillars Grow http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=3 http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=3#comments Sun, 05 Aug 2007 00:44:14 +0000 admin http://www.budsandbutterflies.com/?p=3 Monarch caterpillars grow by eating lots of milkweed.

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Here is a picture of one preparing to form a chrysalis.

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