Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 64, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
mjs,

Queens are born with three sets of antenna-like tubercles. The caterpillar differ slightly in color - well out here anyway. Queens tend to have either yellow or red near the base of the tubercles whereas the monarch is black.

Here's a old photo of a Queen first instar - you can barely make out the tiny dark tubercles :o) CUTE but voracious as well. Hope you have plenty of milkweed!!!

~ Cat


This message was edited Jul 1, 2009 10:02 PM