Ch ch ch changes!

3-28-12  6pm

All day, we've had our eyes on a little caterpillar that had hung itself in a "J."  Yesterday afternoon, it was busy with silk, stitching itself to the roof of an observation jar. 

3-29-12  10:44am

Today, it was a "J."  Its body got darker and it began to do some hanging abdominal crunches.

Just after school, I peeked in to find that its antennae had gone limp.  And while I was puzzling about how to carefully remove the lid to get a photo to show the children, the transformation from larva to pupa began!  In all my years of playing host to caterpillars, I've only managed to catch this stage one other time, and it is weird, weird, weird!







Really, who doesn't get the urge to crack off your head, unzip your skin, and then shimmy around until it peels off and drops to the floor?

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A day of transformations!

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