u/crunchycucumber17

Hey y’all so I’ve been raising monarch caterpillars this summer and have been enjoying it. I have a raised bed outside where I put milkweed and flowers and they love it. I have been buying milkweed from my local nursery with the monarch cats already on it. During this latest batch I noticed a parasitic fly on one of the baby cats. It was already dead so I threw it away. Fast forward a week and I have three caterpillars. Two of them have made their j formation right next to each other. This morning I saw a string coming out of one with a larvae attached. I pulled the string and killed the larvae. The one that released the string is dead I’m sure. He’s dark and never made his chrysalis. The other one however did make a chrysalis and was pulsating. Does the other one have a chance? Do I separate it from the dead one? They made j formations right next to each other. Are there parasitic flies in the dead one or does it just release that larvae?