why?

We were just moving the caterpillars from the moth page back to the lepidoptera page where all the caterpillars are. It doesn't make sense to have all the caterpillars and all the moths plastered to the same overcrowded Moth page. If you click on the black and white image of the caterpillar to the left you will be taken to Lepidoptera and that's where you will find all the rest of the unidentified caerpillars. Didn't realize we had grabbed one of yours. Feel free to move it back. Either way they should all be moved to a species page soon! Can't wait to see what happens!

Do you have any idea how long they might be pupae? I have three in a container right now. I found them on the bottom of their caterpillar house, so I guess they don't need to hang like a monarch chrysalis?

Thanks! I have plenty of both in my yard I keep pulling up - it would be GREAT if they'd eat them!

butterfly weed, which was what they initially started out on, but they turned their noses up at it and didn't eat. What else might they eat?

They really do! I think that Cycnia was just there as a decoy, and while she was hanging out, a tiger moth must have visited, unnoticed by me.

Thanks for possibly solving that mystery! I'm still waiting for them to start cocooning - right now they're still eating and eating and sending me for more milkweed more and more often, which has resulted in now there being two monarch caterpillars in there with them. =)