The Very Hongry Caterpillar

Category: dribblings

On Sunday Liz noticed this gross caterpillar on a weed that’s growing in our yard. She knew what the weed was, but not the caterpillar. I thought it was one of those horrible Tobacco Worms (what ate my tomato plants last year), but I was wrong. I looked it up later and found that it’s a caterpillar of the Tiger Swallowtail butterfly.

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It looks small in that picture. Note that it had only eaten the top part of that leaf.

Also, it has false eyes. It looks like a muppet.

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By day two it was this:

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The hell is that pink thing? Is that the real caterpillar? It just hides in that green jacket? I don’t know. I’m not a scientist, I just own a camera.

By day three? It had totally (totes!) eaten that leaf.

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Day four and five it had eaten another leaf on that weed, but I didn’t take a picture of that. Also, it poops a lot.

 

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