We were looking at this mature egg under our Bausch & Lomb microscope with the children during home-school science, when we broke for lunch.
Newly laid eggs are white, mature eggs take a darker gray color.
After lunch, we looked at the egg again to discover this little guy.
The egg had hatched!!
Chloe named him "Pepper," because the egg looked like a mote of ground pepper.
This video shows him beginning to eat his egg, which they do shortly after hatching.
We raised this caterpillar, feeding it milkweed leaves until it went into chrysalis, about 12 days later.
Pepper went into chrysalis and emerged after 14 days in May, 2019 and was sent off, into our garden, with much celebratory fanfare and l...