One day I looked out my back door window and saw that there were no leaves left on my pentas. I went out to investigate and found no less than 8 hornworms (6 green and 2 brown) trying to live off the four plants in my pot. These were pretty impressively big caterpillars, so we saved them and did a little research. We determined that they would become tersa sphinx moths. So we made a little habitat for two of them and released the rest. I just didn't have enough penta plants left to feed more than two! For about a week they lived in my glass cookie jar. (But I promise I sanitized it really well afterward, so it's safe to eat cookies next time you come to my house!) Then the caterpillars went into their chrysalises for a couple weeks. One morning, we woke up to this:
2 comments:
What a great idea!
suuuuper cool picture!
although i'm terrified of moths
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