Grow already!

I found a few dozen Variegated Fritillary (Euptoieta claudia) eggs about a week and a half ago and collected them. The caterpillars are possibly the slowest growing larvae I have ever witnessed.

Come on guys! Some of them hatched on Friday of last week and this is one of the larger ones in the take shown next to a standard pencil eraser for size comparison.

Note all the tiny holes in the leaves... and itty bitty dots of frass (poop) decorating the leaf.