Oh happy day :) Glad your little guys made it, Deb!

Wish you every bit of success, Vinni! It's really not necessary to spritz water inside the container - in fact, doing so might actually do harm as it will encourage mold growth. Show answer to your inquiry: your cat is simply getting ready to molt. They'll do this a total of four times before forming a chrysalis. Prior to molting, they'll crawl away some where and just sit for a few hours; and then they'll molt before you know it. Here's nice write-up on the monarch life cycle/stages. And here's a good overview on how to raise monarch cats indoors. (Googling 'raising monarch butterflies' will yield tons of helpful information.) We love progress pics, so post when you can. Good luck! PS Don't freak, but after they molt, they'll turn around and eat the molted skin. :)

Hi, everyone. I myself just learned something new and wanted to share it. Please be careful planting different types of MW. I've been raising monarch cats for 5 years outside and never ran into this problem until now. I have 4 different types of MW and had eggs laid on all types. The problem is when one ran out. I moved those cats to a new MW plant and they refused to eat it. I moved them again and again with no success. I had to put them on the last of the MW they originally were on and have MW shipped to me over night from E**y. If anyone starts a monarch host garden. Stick with all the same MW or plant a huge amount of each one, because you may have the same problem I'm having now.

Yeay. Very few monarchs and zebras for us this year too. This has been our Frit year. Released 36 so far and still have another 10 pupae!