Watch a spiny oak slug caterpillar, Euclea delphinii hatch from its egg! A final video to finish off our Caterpillar of the Week! Slug caterpillars have very unique, flat, and clear eggs. Like little cellophane envelopes. Because of this, you can witness a baby slug caterpillar develop from start to finish! Can you make out all the already hatched eggs surrounding the caterpillar in the video? After the caterpillar hatches it will pump out its first set of spines. The bright colors and patterns

Seven minutes of a woollybear caterpillar hatching from its egg! Who watched the whole thing? Do it! I watched this egg for a loooooong time to capture the moment. The Banded Woolly Bear or Isabella Tiger Moth, Pyrrharctia isabella, overwinters as a final instar caterpillar, feeds for a time in the spring and then builds a cocoon and pupates. At The Caterpillar Lab, we accelerated a few woolly bears that we found nearby and the resulting moths already eclosed, mated and laid eggs. Now, here we a