The female monarch butterfly lays her eggs in late winter, spring, or early summer. When the larva , it eats its egg case and begins feeding on milkweed. The caterpillar soon a silk pad on a leaf or and hangs down in a "J" formation, as its jade green forms around it. The butterfly inside the chrysalis and in about two weeks and feeds on a of flowers milkweed, goldenrod, and red clover.