I have been recently raising some monarch caterpillars to butter butterflies for my son’s kindergarten class. We’ve had some issues with parasites from the flies, and then I think we may have had a case of OE, when one of the butterflies that had just hatched was found on the ground, and the wings were all dried in a crunched up fashion. I recently have a smaller inter star caterpillar that seems to be shedding in pieces instead of from the head to the rear. I’m afraid this is another sign of a parasite or something going on.
I also caught the teacher’s daughter handling it so I’m wondering if it’s from over handling?
I can’t seem to find anything that looks like this online.
