Buddy
Part I
Thursday, 10 July 2008
It’s really fun to watch the caterpillar eat dill – they eat all day long, and poop out these perfectly spherical little poops that smell like dill. I was hoping to catch Buddy eating on video, because it’s quite mesmerizing (see this photoI took years ago, before the wonders of YouTube). But alas, when I came home today, Buddy had already started to metamorphose. As seen here, he has decided to pupate on the side of his cage:
In this blown-out close-up image, you can really see the silk he has laid out to attach himself firmly to the wire mesh:
It’s incredible to watch a caterpillar transform into a butterfly – undoubtedly one of the most amazing things I have ever seen. Hopefully I will be able to capture more of the action on film.
