Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Look what I got!, 1 by melody

melody wrote:
And here they are.....not sure exactly how many I have,but at least 15 or 20. I have several kinds of host leaves in my water pitcher, but they seem to prefer the absolutely toughest, rattiest oak leaves.

Guess I'll have to get them some new digs...something more appropriate for growing cats. I wasn't planning on raising these, but they present such a great photographic opportunity, it seems silly to turn them loose to the elements at this point. BugFiles can use the images, and they seem to be fairly content to just hang out on the leaves and eat.

They're not all hatched...some are still dried and shrunken looking, so I'm guessing they won't hatch...there's others that look like they'll pop at any moment though...so the show isn't over yet.

How many instars do they have...and how long till they pupate?