Caterpillars - Tumblr Posts
I found a swallowtail caterpillar and took care of it until it made it’s cocoon. It rewarded me by hatching. They are so easy to photograph when they first enclose.
Sycamore Tussock Moth
you wish you were me. finding caterpillars on my tomato plants 4 millimeters long. I found like 3 more today. definitely in the cutworm family.
Reminds me of raising monarch caterpillars in the summer when I was a kid :). One year we raised 400!
The only thing is.... Monarch caterpillars ONLY eat milkweed. That's their whole thing. So I don't know why these guys are on a watermelon and it's disturbing me a little
you learn something new every day i just learned about the limacodid slug caterpillar and i am obsessed
🌱inner growth🌱
I had a lot of fun with this one :) it went mush further than I had originally planned, but the end result was much better than I expected ☺️ the hardest part was putting together all the smaller components since they were done on different bits of canvas paper, but I managed to stitch them all together with the magic of technology 😅
Look at da baby bois!
a mess of mature promethea moth caterpillars (Callosamia promethea) wriggling plumply after spending a little less than a month fattening up on wild cherry leaves
a smaller relative of the cecropia moth, these are one of the less well-known giant silkmoths in the US, but they might just be my favorite species to raise.
(Massachusetts, 8/20/23)
