Yay! Just hatched monarchs

[Adam]

My monarch eggs that my females layed a few days ago, just hatched, and 40 of 50 survived, they are so cute!

 

[Trapper7]

Where are the pics??

 

[Adam]

Ill take them as soon as the get bigger, right now its too hard to see them

 

[Chunkyhunks]

Congratulations! Hopefully in a couple of weeks I'll be raising some myself.

 

[Fryster]

WHAT is the shortage of butterflies nowadays??

I never see 'em like I used to when I was a kid. Do they go into decades-long population cycles?

 

[Adam]

Pesticides, im doing my part of nature by helping monarchs, they seem to be the rarest actually.

 

[theyellowdart]

Edit: Whoops! I misread your post. Nevermind.

Congrats on the bugs. How many are there?

 

[Adam]

Bad news... My monarchs mated again, and laid eggs, and are mating right now. Im leaving the eggs just on the cutting for right now

 

[Trapper7]

Why is that bad news? Now you'll REALLY be helping the Monarch population

 

[Nepfreak]

I hope you have a lot of milkweed. The babies grow REALLY fast. 10 days ago I collected some eggs off milkweed. Now some of the caterpillars are two inches long and all they do is eat! lol get ready to clean out a LOT of poop if you're keeping them in a cage!

 

[Adam]

DW, I have 2 full milkweeds, but unfortunately they have the beetles http://www.mongabay.com/images/peru/tambopata/Tambopata_1028_4632.JPG that eat them, and the butterfly weeds clean. I made some butterfly weed cuttings, and put them in the container method. ALso, no problem with the frass(poo) for me, the remaining ones im letting them stay outside, on a few cuttings, when they get bigger im putting a net on. Also, its bad news cause i dont have containers or any room for them, so im letting them outside