Never trust a caterpillar to stay in his jar unless you seal him in! I found this guy one morning sitting on my sink with a trail of caterpillar scat behind him. Unfortunately his jar-mate didn't leave any traces behind and is still AWOL. This has not been a good caterpillar year for us. More MIAs and deaths than survivors. We currently are left with 1 egg ready to hatch any minute, 3 chrysalises, 1 monarch caterpillar and 1 as of yet unidentified caterpillar.
Can you identify the guy in the following three photos?
It may be hard to see in the pictures but he has a red line down the center of his body lined by two blue ones on either side of the red one.
He is quite an aggressive fellow. When I tried to pick him up with my cater pillar wrangler (a small paint brush) he went psycho and would flip, wriggle and strike at the brush with his head. Much more violent than Monarch caterpillars. He doesn't eat as much or poop as much as the Monarchs but is growing at what I think is a good pace.
Also on the creepy crawlie note. Today I found a small snake skin by my front door. I'm not exactly thrilled to know another snake is out there lurking somewhere...I have made a mental note to put the big spade shovel where Emma can easily access it if she needs to fetch it for me again!
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Too bad about your MIA's! Harold and Eva Jean stopped by this evening and took 7 caterpillers we had gathered for them yesterday. Two were in J mode this evening when they picked them up, but there were two small ones with them too.
Mom
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