Please be avised that just enough food is supplied for your caterpillars for the shipment to you. They will need immediate food. Make certain you have the insecticide free host plant available. Shady Oak Butterfly Farm sells most of these host plants as well as Painted Lady Artificial Diet.
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Viceroys always lay their eggs on the tip of a leaf or on the tip of a broken portion of a leaf.
A microscope reveals details of a Viceroy's egg that our eyes cannot see alone.
A hatchling Viceroy eats the tip of the leaf,
leaving only the vien.
Viceroy and Red-spotted Purples arrange bits of a leaf as a dangling ball below the leaf.
A Viceroy is molting into second instar.
A Viceroy has molted. Its skin is behind it on the stem.
When preparing to molt, caterpillars draw their heads into the skin just behind the head capsule. In this photo, the caterpillar on the right has a bulge behind
it's head capsule. This bulge is the head. On the left is a caterpillar which has finished molting and the new, larger head capsule is revealed.