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white, yellow and blue striped caterpillar (Monarch butterfly caterpillar)

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Monarch Butterflies
by: Alisha

The Monarch Butterflies are especially noted for their lengthy annual migration. In the North America they make massive southward migrations starting in the August until the first frost. One of the most famous and the beloved of all the California missions is Mission San Juan Capistrano. The lovely little town of the San Juan Capistrano hosts flocks of the swallows, which return every year at about the same time in the spring to fanfare and celebration by the whole town.
Monarch butterfly caterpillar
by: Moni

Brenda
Your caterpillar is a monarch. Not sure by your comment if you have kept it or not. If so here is a great website about monarch butterflies.
http://www.monarchwatch.org/

To answer your question - A caterpillar will crawl away from the host milkweed plant to pupate. It crawls to another plant to form a chrysalis or pupa case. Once it has pupated it takes about 10-14 days to emerge into an adult. They overwinter as butterflies.
Most monarchs in North America migrate to Mexico to overwinter, however since you are in CT, your monarchs may migrate to Florida.

Monarch butterflies feed on nectar of many flowers. The butterflies lay eggs only on milkweed (Asclepias spp.) plants as that is the only food for their larvae. There is a chemical in milkweeds that prevent the caterpillars and butterflies from being eaten. Any insect that feeds on milkweeds are not palatable food for birds, frogs or other insects.

Note - a butterfly pupa is called a chrysalis while a moth pupa is called a cocoon. Both can be called pupa (pupae is plural).
monarch butterfly
by: Brenda

Thank you. I had a friend of mine help me also and he said the same thing. when it spins into a cocoon how long does it stay in the cocoon before becoming a monarch butterfly?
cat,
by: Anonymous

i believe it will become a monarch butter fly
white, yellow and blue striped caterpillar
by: Anonymous

Looks like a Monarch butterfly caterpillar to me.

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