Today I found a tomato horn worm on one of my tomato plants. I have never had these before! It wasn't very big, but big enough to eat some tomatoes! It was probably around 2-2.5" long and about pencil thin. Right after I took this pic, I beheaded the little vermin for eating my tomatoes! GRR!!!
#1's chrysalis is starting to turn clear today! #2 started pupating last night. I wasn't able to watch it happen, but I did see it in its "J" form. Today, I woke up to it turned into a chrysalis...albeit a fresh one. It was really pretty too! Striped just like it was before when it was a caterpillar! Backlit...you could see the space in it too. It didn't even eat the four leaves I gave it last night.
A few days ago Adam came over for a visit, bringing the flava he got me as well as some other things he wanted to show me. As I was giving him a tour of my patch, he found a little monarch caterpillar!
This was the first day we found it...looked to be at L2 stage, 1/4" long:
Day 2:
You can tell it is getting fatter!
Look at its cute little stripey face!
Day 3:
He looks like he is about to burst!
This is how tiny he is compared to my hand!
Look how much bigger the body is than the head! Definitely a porker!
Day 4:
L3 stage. Looks like Fattie molted! Check out the new antennas!
Looking more like a caterpillar!
Day 5:
L4, Fattie must've molted again last night. Look at those loooong antennas!
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