I did some research from bug guide.net that advised to provide a shelter similar to outdoors, like a screened-in porch…in my case, I selected a screened-in window. Tucker, hopefully, will make its cocoon when it is ready and I’m to keep feeding the caterpillar until then. But lately, Tucker hasn’t eaten any of the fresh leaves so I hope it will start wandering around and notice that in its new environment is a pile of shredded paper for it to pupate. Just have to keep checking on it and wait and see!

All of those caterpillars are emerging daily.  We are sending them off hoping they’ll have a nice trip to Mexico.

When my granddaughters visited, they noticed I had something strange quickly moving about in my Monarch Butterfly House.  They stopped me from destroying it and MJ said it was a Tussock Moth Caterpillar, that also feeds on the milkweed plant. It got transplanted to another container so its activities could be watched!  So, I named it “Tucker”.

We have just saved 20 monarch caterpillars and 1 chrysalis! we found most of them when they were eggs but now we have a caterpillars, caterpillars and more caterpillars! There is a whole Monarch world on our desk habitat!