Date: 08/08/2017

Number: 16

I was raising 6-7 caterpillars at a time. When they were ready to make there chrysalis I put them in a pop up butterfly cage. Sadly I believe they were infected with OE disease. Some did not emerge from their chrysalis and others did but were too weak to hold on. A few did not complete there chrysalis and died while making it. I was not washing the milkweed leaves before I fed them to the caterpillars. After reading up on the disease I will clean the containers with bleach and wash the leaves from now on.

Douglas, MA

Latitude: 42 Longitude: -71.7

Observed by: mary
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