"Dumbass" may or may not make it, in the process of being transferred to a fresh leaf he freaked out and pooped silk like a squid and tried to swim away. Writhing like he was on fire he managed to get tangled in his own filaments, and needless to say he *might* have fallen and been dropped on his head... a couple times :/ The two that were moved before him were just fine though.
The one that stopped eating is dead :/
We found more eggessess!!! We found 8 on the calmansi, no wait 9 on the calmansi, oh, hold on 10?... nope 12, 12 eggs on the calmansi, which we collected by snipping and putting them in vials of water to keep the leaves alive. And we also found 3 on the Rue, so maybe they really do like Rue!
We are thinking that part of the reason the first batch didn't make it was because the leaves they hatched on were already drying out and dying?
Caterpillar count:
Batch #1 - forget about it.
Batch #2 - Four out of six, for now...
Batch #3a - 12 eggesess!
Batch #3b - 3 eggs on the Rue
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