He was there on Tuesday but then I lost him... but then he was found!! Twenty feet away on another species of milkweed plant. I've seen the Monarch Butterflies hanging around but their 26-34 day egg/caterpillar/pupal stages have eluded me for the last few years. This guy's probably ten days old, another four or so until he pupates - in the safety of class 202's former lizard cage. He's super sweet. :) After a 9-14 day pupation he'll be off to Texas, maybe Mexico? Quite a dumbfounding mystery how three to four generations share a 2,000 mile migration...
Below are pictures from the garden's first Monarch capture and release in 2008. One of my Environmental Science students noticed the chrysalis on the side of the building when we got back from a field trip. Realizing that it might not survive another few weeks at kicking height I brought it home for a safe transformation!
~Ms. Childress
Below are pictures from the garden's first Monarch capture and release in 2008. One of my Environmental Science students noticed the chrysalis on the side of the building when we got back from a field trip. Realizing that it might not survive another few weeks at kicking height I brought it home for a safe transformation!
~Ms. Childress
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