It’s that time of year again, when the kids (and myself) get overly invested in the lifecycle of these grubs. Last year we managed maybe a 10% success rate (from egg to butterfly) hopefully we’ll do better this time round.
Thank you, I’ve been away from my butterflies this year so it’s nice to see this.
Hope you do well too. In recent years I have taken to giving precarious cocoons (attached to green leaves etc) a safety rope made out of cotton so they won’t fall, seems to work.
So today I saw a Monach butterfly looking thing, but it was only about 1cm long. I’m under the impression butterflies come out of the chrysalis the size that they stay. Anyone know what I might have seen?
Hmm, maybe, but the sizes don’t seem right. I’d guess maybe the painted lady, but it was very small, not near 5cm. I’d guess 1cm high and 2cm wide as a maximum. These state maximum sizes, maybe I just saw a smaller one?
They would eat a plant to destruction them move on to the next one. I lost hundreds of caterpillars. Still have some cocoons that didn’t survive from last year.
They really need to come up with a better plan. Also doesn’t help that swam plants are poisonous to a bunch of other animals. So can’t plant them anywhere near where other animals are.
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