A few weeks ago I was out trimming my basil plants and I saw a bunch of these eating my parsley plants
So I decided to put two of them in a jar and watch them grow inside. After some research we discovered these are black swallowtail caterpillars. Sadly, one died after a week of my care. However, the other one spun it's chrysalis
So I turn to Todd when we discovered the transformation and asked how long it takes until he's a butterfly. I'm thinking maybe a week or two. OOH NO! I was VERY wrong. When a caterpillar spins a chrysalis in August it goes into a sort of hybernation. Yep this caterpillar won't be a butterfly for 8.5 months! So we are storing him outside in our garage until May. Todd said to think of it like a baby which takes 9 months in the womb. That should take care of my wanting another baby right now since almost every sister and sister-in-law on both sides are all currently pregnant and due in the spring! So hopefully by mid May this will be what my baby will look like:
myersfam5
9 years ago
7 comments:
Now THAT is a good pregnancy!
Nice! We're getting to that point, but maybe we'll just get a caterpiller instead.
I love it. The boys would think that was so cool!
lol i love this post!
Good luck on the pregnancy!haha Are you really going to keep it that long?
That is too funny. Good luck on the project! Maybe it will help keep you from getting baby hungry too soon!
Oh wow, the butterfly is beautiful! Your doing a great job!!
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