Date: 07/30/2023

Number: 1

Monarch individual m01, birthday, one day after egg found on fallen leaf. Pictured - Bottom: egg split at noon near the tip and the larva is nibbling away (leaf was getting crispy so it was misted with water in the morning), Middle: larva baby at 14:30 eating its egg case after crawling out and first eating some fibers off the leaf, notice the dark head cap and tiny jaws as well as a fresh leaf carefully placed nearby without risking touching the larva, Top: larva at 17:05 on top side of fresh leaf eating holes in the surface about the size of its head cap.

Rookie mistake(?): the first fresh leaf was not rinsed off, and many tiny (much smaller than the larva) aphids were seen under magnification crawling on the leaf and at one point one hitched a ride on the larva's back. Subsequent leaves will be gently rinsed with fresh unchlorinated water.

Gulliver, MI

Latitude: 46.1 Longitude: -86.1

Observed by: James
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