monarch caterpillars

[napapen]

How do these tachinid larvae do this - during catepillar stage.  Since
writing last night 1 has formed the J shape and the others are moving
around but not eating.   and 2 got out of the box somehow and must be
somewhere in my sunroom.

NapaPenny





Xi Wang <xiwang at sprint.ca> wrote in message news:<3BAA628A.3394 at sprint.ca>...
> This year, my Monarch larvae took on avg 14 days to go from hatching to
> pupation at 25 Celsius.
> 
> Peace,
> Xi Wang
> 
> Martha Rosett Lutz wrote:
> > 
> > "I have 7 monarchs I am raising in the house.  I have been reading alot
> > of info on the internet about when they go into pupa stage.  Mine are
> > 47mm long (+or-) and are eating like pigs.  I fear I will run out of
> > milkweed before they change."
> > 
> > Most of the larvae I have raised from eggs will pupate ten days after the
> > egg hatches.  If your larvae are 8-9 days old, you have only a day or so to
> > go before they spin their little button, hang upside down, and feed no more
> > on leaves.
> > 
> > On the other hand, of the 20 or so larvae I reared this summer, almost half
> > were parasitized with multiple tachinid larvae, which emerged when the
> > monarchs hung upside down to pupate.
> > 
> > In Stride,
> > Martha Rosett Lutz
> > 
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