Jul 14 2020

Babies!

I know they’re very difficult to see. iPhone cameras don’t take very good closeups.

My 4 eggs all hatched. Two can be seen on this leaf. They are about half the size of a grain of rice.

One more caterpillar is on the front of that leaf. The other one wandered off of the plant and I’m not sure if he will survive for right now. All I can do is put him back on the food and hope.

That’s the trouble with raising caterpillars. You can do everything to help them be successful and they will still find a way to not survive sometimes. Out in the wild they have about a 3% chance of survival against all of the predators out there and their survival rate is much higher in my care even if sometimes there are some losses.

I will update in a few days when they are big enough to see on camera!

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