Saturday, June 12, 2010

LARVA ON A STIX

by Robin

This is not intended to be part of my special dietary menu!!

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These are Black Swallowtail larva.

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They are destroying my dill plants.

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And Cilantro....

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So, we decided to pull one plant, put it in a habitat, then put ALL the caterpillars in there together. I hope they create those chrysallis(s) soon and then we can see butterflies!!! I try to do one project a year like this from something in the garden. One year, we watched Giant Swallowtails emerge from their chrysallises. (crysalli?)

Is it me or do they look like I skewed them on sticks?? They've eaten off all the tops of my plants. Did you happen to notice all the escargot on my herbs too?? Grrrr.
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I'll try to get our habitat pics up soon.

Have a great weekend!!

3 comments:

Deborah said...

Hello friend!
You are a great Mom AND photographer...

Sharie said...

Those are BEAUTIFUL caterpillars! So jealous! lol Can't wait to see the butterflies!

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