Laying an Egg Aug 23, 2019Reproducing can be tiring. A Monarch butterfly lays about 250 eggs per day, one at a time. Whew!
Fast Eaters Aug 16, 2019A Monarch caterpillar doesn’t like to talk while they are an eating. They can wolf down an entire milkweed leaf in 5 minutes.
Hungry Caterpillar Jul 19, 2019Monarch caterpillars don’t have time to read books and watch TV. They spend all day eating, gaining 2700 times their original weight over a 5 to 10-day span before they transform into a chrysalis.