comments on ‘monarchs’ on are you electronic

comment from jg

justin@areyouelectronic.com (jg) — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 06:53:13 -0700

Well, that was quick. The chrysalis hatched!

At least one got away. I think there is a second in the blurry background there.

We spotted a couple of other chrysali among the iris too.

comment from jg

justin@areyouelectronic.com (jg) — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 12:24:38 -0700

Linden and Ali spotted one chrysalis last night in the nearby flowers. There are probably a few more in there but likely the rest are gone, taken down with the yard remodel that is ongoing in the neighbor’s yard. See here.

Sole survivor.

comment from Linden Skjeie

justin@areyouelectronic.com (Linden Skjeie) — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:21:32 -0700

That’s a lot of cats!

comment from jg

justin@areyouelectronic.com (jg) — Mon, 25 May 2026 12:13:48 -0700

That same milkweed plant has been decimated in 24 hours.

There are still a lot of caterpillars on there.

comment from jg

justin@areyouelectronic.com (jg) — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:40:01 -0700

We counted over 20 caterpillars this morning. There were 17 on one milkweed alone!

How many can you see here?

comment from jg

justin@areyouelectronic.com (jg) — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:33:39 -0700

I got a couple of pictures of these buggers yesterday morning.

The big ones are so big! They are about 5 cm (2 inches) long.

So big!

This small one is so small! It just has tiny little antenna nubs, so cute!

So tiny!

Can you imagine starting out so small, just a couple of millimeters, and over the course of a few days (I assume, I don’t know) growing by about a factor of 10 or 20? That’s just in length, in volume it’s more like 100x!

And, there were fifteen (!) of them out there.