WOWzer! Not really knowing any better, we left it on the plant that night and woke up the next morning to NO leaves on the plant. I didn’t realize they were such munchers… I missed that day in science class. We moved him to a bug container that we’ve had for 3 + years now. The funny thing is we bought this container for exactly this purpose but had sort of forgotten about it. So, it was never even taken out of the box. M is super excited to watch it grow. “When is it going to turn into its chrysalis”---that’s what I’ve been hearing for the last 2 days! Pretty cool, huh (except that this one is going to be a moth not a beautiful butterfly).
This is what it’s going to look like, yikes!
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Wow! It's like The Very Hungry Caterpillar came to life in your back yard!!
I found one of these today and I am keeping it in a fish tank with some dirt twigs and leaves. I was wondering how long it took for yours to coccoon and bloom into a moth, and what did you feed it? I put some rasberry leaves along with a rasberry and a rhubarb leaf and some lettuce in there but he does not some to be interested in any of that!! Please email me at treehuggerbunnylover @ gmail.com I'd really appreciate it!! :) Thanks!
Hey sorry I didn't realize you had just written this post a few days ago. I just found a website that tells about them, and you might want to reconsider keeping it in a bug container. This website says that that pupate over winter in soil as deep as 12 cm. It says they come near the ground when they are ready to pupate - so I am going to free mine into some soil so it can do that, as I found it near the ground so that's probably what he wants to do. Plus it won't be that interesting to keep in in some dirt where I can't see him over winter! http://www.royalalbertamuseum.ca/natural/insects/bugsfaq/wavespnx.htm
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