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Ready To Hatch

After seeing the swallowtail laying eggs, I searched both my saucer magnolia trees. I was only able to find one egg & it was on the leaf I photographed the butterfly actually laying it. No clue why just 1 egg. It was green when I found it. I brought it inside to my butterfly habitat. I have raised many monarchs so thought I'd try with this one.
6 days later the egg looks like this. No longer green, it is translucent & you can see the tiny caterpillar inside.
Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Egg (Papilio glaucus)

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