First a sip of nectar, then she went off to lay eggs on another milkweed leaf.
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Active once again
The butterfly house is active once again with very hungry monarch catepillars munching on a giant milkweed.
The monarchs have been busy as almost every milkweed in the gardens have caterpillars of every instar enjoying the leaves. What better why to wqtch the life cycle than to invite them into our butterfly house?
Remarkable
The life cycle of the butterfly is amazing to watch. Here’s a female butterfly busy laying eggs on a milkweed plant.
At the tip of the abdomen are short hair pencils on the male monarch butterfly, which helps in spreading pheromones during courtship through the wing glands. When the female lays its eggs they have already been fertilized with sperm, which have been stored in her body.