Found this Cecropia caterpillar in our front garden. It's huge! And gonna get bigger, will be around 4 inches long when it's full grown in this stage.
We thought we'd feed it and watch it turn into the cocoon and come out a moth.
This is what moth it would grow into:
It will have between a 4 and 5 inch wing span. Wow!
Read more and found out it stays in its cocoon alllllll winter...dang,
it's back in the woods.
2 comments:
Wow, that's cool!
That's beautiful! We see those moths around here on occasion, and they're amazing! One of my favorite pictures is of my youngest at about age 5 with a newly emerged monarch butterfly perched on his finger, drying its new wings. :)
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