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The monarch life cycle.
Pictures on this and the following pages show important moments in the lives of monarch butterflies —
whose eggs and caterpillars spend their lives on milkweed plants. Without milkweed to eat, monarch caterpillars will starve.
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The
picture shows a female monarch butterfly laying a single
egg on a milkweed leaf.
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This monarch butterfly
egg was laid in an unusual place. Most eggs are laid singly, beneath milkweed leaves, but
I watched this butterfly place hers on the tip of a small flower bud. Note the bullet shape,
which is about 1.2 millimeters long (less than 1/32 inch). |
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Bird's eye view of a monarch egg. Dark material at the top is a tiny caterpillar, shortly before it ate a hole in the eggshell and hatched. |
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