Not the season's first, and won't be the last, but the monarch caterpillars are pretty common right now, as monarch caterpillars go. I found 3 in one small patch of milkweed. And I could look at them forever, even though they don't do much but slowly munch...
(quick sketch... a bug that doesn't move too fast to draw!)
(Portrait of the munching end)
(The whole thing.)
(A much earlier instar on a neighboring plant)
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