Thursday August 16, 2007

Monarch Nursery!

Just when I thought I was going to have an ordinary day with my caterpillar family, I discover two babies and two others emerging from their eggs!

Chaplain David Roberts brought photos for his newsletter this morning, and after explaining how he wanted it set up, I invited him to see the caterpillars.  When I lifted a leaf to show him the eggs, I noticed a baby and another emerging! 

A caterpillar preparing to emerge from an egg.

Several more views of the process.

There he is!

All four of them look exactly alike – there is no way I can tell them apart – so I am calling them the M & Ms.

Tonight I could only find three – so hopefully #4 M is just hiding somewhere.

Michael chewed his leaf clean – leaving only the stem – before moving on to a new leaf tonight.

Max and Molly are both busy munching and are beginning to look more and more like each other.

If Molly continues to chew as feverishly as she did today – and catch up in size with Max – I will not know which is which.

I still recognize Munch, because he is the only teenager.  He moved to a new leaf today and has been very busy chewing.