Posts Tagged ‘black swallowtail caterpillar’
August 12th, 2010 | 
Author: This is what I get for having a few busy days-
Troopa the Swallowtail Caterpillar has left the cocoon. And we missed it! BOO
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Brinn, Shaye and I have been mesmerized by these caterpillars! Every morning after breakfast we head onto the porch to check them out, but on this particular morning there was only one caterpillar munching away on the last nub of parsley.
We went over to another flower box on my porch, low and behold we found this lazy guy! I admit, we’re super excited he stuck around and decided to do his thing in a potted geranium!
Our Swallowtail caterpillar is on the road to being a butterfly!
Chrysalis
Day 1 of his pupa, supa dupa!
I’m so mad I forgot to take a picture yesterday for day 2!
But here is day 3:
Link to day one! http://www.stepfordlife.com/2010/07/whered-my-parsley-go/
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See anything?
wait……a minute
When you realize your flower box is technically infested, you want to google it to make sure that they won’t eat or poison my kids. So I did some researching….
Black Swallowtails!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Swallowtail
Very fitting, I think one of these is tattoo’d on my back!
It makes me want to run out and plant parsley everywhere!
link to 2nd update: http://www.stepfordlife.com/2010/08/caterpillar-metamorphosis/
