Tuesday, June 26, 2012

cutest critter ever!



 Saw this lil feller crawlin through the grass. I think it is one of the cutest things I have ever seen!! What is even cuter is that when it was frightened it shimmied n shook.
After looking it up I found out it is a caterpillar of the  spicebush swallowtail  butterfly(Papilio troilus). the caterpillars start out green and turn yellow or orange when they are ready to pupate.

2 comments:

  1. Wonderful pictures! We had swallowtail caterpillars here last year - great fun to watch as they developed. But they ate just about every leaf on the tree they picked to dine on.

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  2. At the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, outside the butterfly house, there is a giant bronze statues of a swallowtail butterfly caterpillar. I had my picture taken while sitting on it!

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