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 w…

https://www.monarchparasites.org/oe

The shedding is weird, but it looks to me like it has a virus anyway. Handling animals always has a risk of giving them a disease, but really it could’ve come from anywhere

Unusual monarch caterpillar shedding

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Unusual monarch caterpillar shedding

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