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yesterday, I came home from work to find a mass exodus going on from the bottom of the habitat to the top, in preparation for pupation. Makes sense, since so many of them were laid as eggs on the same afternoon. Here are most of them this morning:



So right now I have 5 chrysalises, 9 in J position or preparing for J position, and 3 still munching on milkweed. (Thank goodness only 3--some of my milkweed plants are beginning to look pretty bare! I used over 40 leaves in one day at the height of their consumption...)

One cat died . The housecleaner comes on Wed, and when I came home from work on Wed, I discovered that she had moved the rice cooker, which has been shielding the habitat, in order to clean the counter. So, a feline had apparently gotten on the counter and leaped on the habitat. A whole side of it was caved in, and one of the caterpillars was fatally injured. I guess I'm lucky it was only one... Next time the housecleaner comes I need to leave her a note not to clean that counter...