why caterpillars eat their eggshells

Anne Kilmer viceroy at gate.net
Sun Apr 1 17:46:28 EDT 2001


this garbled itself somehow. see if this makes better sense

Anne Kilmer wrote:
> 
>
> I was told, as a novice butterfly farmer, never to roll the eggs off the
> plants to take home and rear (as Butterfly world does) because if the
> egg is lying around loose, the larva is likely not to find the shell and eat
> it (it rolls away), and may therefore fail to mature properly.
sorry
Anne

 
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