Eggs #1 & #2 Hatched!!!!

Egg #2 hatched around 8:30 pm. We call him "Thing 2". He is about 1/8 of an inch long.He has a black head and if you could see closer you would be able to see his stripes!!! (Egg received from friends)

Did you know: The Monarch Caterpillar eats his egg shell first, and then starts eating the Milkweed?


Egg #1 hatched around 2:00pm. We call him "Thing 1". He is about 1/8 of an inch long, same size as "Thing 2". (Egg found)

Just before the eggs hatched, we saw 2 black dots on the egg. When we looked again, we saw the egg shell, and a tiny caterpillar beside it. To really see the caterpillar well, we had to look through a magnifying glass.

They were SO cute! And SO tiny. It was neat to watch them crawl around on the leaf. They started eating right away. They were really fast when they crawled too!
The egg I received on a Wednesday morning, hatched on a Thursday. The egg hatched within about 30 hours of receiving it. The egg I found on a Wednesday hatched on a Thursday as well. It hatched within about 24 hours of finding it.






The picture to the right is "Goliath" and below is a picture of "Tiny". They are now 3 days older than the day I found them.They have almost doubled in size!!