Monarch Life Cycle

There were two Caterpillars sitting on a leaf . . . when a Butterfly flew past . . . and they said, "You'll never get US up in one of those things"

i love monarchs. they look awesome and are easy to raise. unfortunately they destroyed all the milkweed so i can't find the caterpillars anymore. but thanks for the video, i rated it a 5.

Still over 20 eggs left though, so I'm going to let nature take it's course but day by day as the eggs hatch into caterpillars and the caterpillars get bigger, there are less and less of them. Finally one morning I go out with my coffee and there are only 3 left. I go in to refresh my coffee and when I get back out to the milkweed there are only 2 left! ... so I brought those last 2 inside.

Just those two I brought indoors. What happened is, I've had milkweed (the only plant monarchs feed on) in my garden for 3 years and this is the first year that a monarch laid eggs on it. There was probably about 40 of them. Next day it poured! rain and some were either washed off or eaten by something that didn't mind the pouring rain. Next day repeat of day before.

Wow that is amazing footage Osmia. What is the plastic container? You keep them indoors?