I found one of these nasty little guys a few days ago and just knew that he would be adored by my tomboy girls. I popped him into a great big jar along with a ton of leaves and figured they would enjoy watching him crawl around and eat 50x his weight in greens every day. Well, it was short-lived because he almost immediately built his cocoon! It was really awesome to watch the fat, neon green guy become a fluffy tan puff in the corner of the jar. The girls check on him everyday and sometimes Beatrice carries the jar around the house when I'm not looking.
I did some research and discovered that he's probably a polyphemus moth. They stay in their cocoons for about two weeks, so check back with us then to see if he survived the transformation! I'm really hoping he will!!
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Did you take this photo?! Its wonderful!!!
Nope. I stole it off the interwebs!
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