The four later instar in the keeper are eating like crazy. Four more eggs hatched since yesterday that I can find the larvae for, but there is at least one other egg “missing”, and I just might have missed finding the larva. Continue reading “Guardianship update: 4th August 2018”
Category: Creatures
Exactly what you’d expect, posts about various creatures here.
Cleaning out/Setting up the monarch keeper, Part 2
Welcome back to today’s installment of how I’m making my monarch keeper. Here’s all the bits I didn’t write up yesterday, along with info and images about materials and the process. Continue reading “Cleaning out/Setting up the monarch keeper, Part 2”
Cleaning out the monarch keeper
I had started setting up the tank on Sunday, but quickly realized when I found the old crickets inside that it was in fact used as a reptile tank at one point. That changed my plan of action slightly, as it still had some sand in the base and now the cleaning would need to be more thorough just in case anything lingered from the former residents. Then my cat got sick, and suffice it to say I forgot about the cleaning though I still kept an eye on the monarchs. Continue reading “Cleaning out the monarch keeper”
Guardianship update: 29th July 2018
At first, I thought the newest egg dried out or I had squished it in transfer because I couldn’t find the baby larva nearby today when I check on the monarchs and the egg looked deflated. I felt awful. Continue reading “Guardianship update: 29th July 2018”
Guardianship update: 28th July 2018
We currently have four larvae and another egg I risked taking off a seedpod. Continue reading “Guardianship update: 28th July 2018”
Gardening in the rain
This week has proven to be one where the showers are actually happening as predicted, unlike the last time rain was forecast nonstop and then kept forgetting to actually visit. Continue reading “Gardening in the rain”
Two more monarch eggs found 24th July 2018
I found two more monarch eggs and brought them inside on their respective leaves. Continue reading “Two more monarch eggs found 24th July 2018”
Monarch egg progress #2
One larvae is fully out of its egg. Teeny tiny even under the magnifying glass. The second is still working its way out. Continue reading “Monarch egg progress #2”
Did you notice?
In my two milkweed tussock larvae post, I remember seeing the black dots behind the woolly glory and a part of my brain that wasn’t sleepy wondering, “are there younger instar under that leaf?”
So I took a closer look in another shot that showed more of the eaten area where I thought they were, and there sure as heck are. The Count would have been thrilled to have something else to count, and more numerous to boot!
