What Do Monarch Eggs Look Like On A Milkweed Plant? The best place to look for monarch eggs is on milkweed because it is the only plant that adult monarchs lay their eggs on. The trick is to look on the underside of the leaf but you may sometimes find eggs on the stems or
Do Monarch Caterpillars Eat Monarch Eggs? Do Monarch caterpillars eat monarch eggs? We found that not only were they eating their own eggs but they also eat each other’s eggs. We found by setting up an experiment that the queen monarchs ate more monarch larvae than the monarch eggs than they ate of their own.
How Long Is The Monarch Butterfly Life Cycle? Stage Typical Duration Egg stage Generally 4 to 6 days Caterpillar (larval) stage 2 to 3 weeks Chrysalis (pupal) stage 5 to 15 days Adult butterfly stage2 to 5 weeks for the summer generations, but the over-wintering generation in Mexico can live several months How long is