Sunday, July 24, 2011

Caterpillar Update

  • I think Katy Pilly is ready to pupate (that is, become a chrysalis for a couple weeks before emerging as a butterfly).
  • Heimlich just keeps right on chewing through the loads of parsley I give him. I think he deserves an epithet: Heimlich the Fatter-pillar. 
  • I had a scare where I thought Carle was dead, but he just likes to not move for long periods of time. 
  • Carle has a new soybean looper buddy who's about one-fiftieth the size of Carle, and whose name is I LST MY LTL CTBLLA (the caption to a well-known drawing by the then quite young Mr. Yanick Alder, and by well-known, I mean among his family and and friends). ILMLC (pronounced ill-milk) for short.
In the following picture, Katy Pilly is at the top with some stringy white stuff she's using to stay attached to the glass where she's been for the past day or so, Heimlich the Fatter-pillar's still eating, Carle's camouflaged on the left, and I can't find ILMLC because he's tiny.
 

 Edit/update: Katy Pilly is now officially a chrysalis so we're changing her name to... Ludachrysalis. Heimlich the Fatterpillar is also preparing for chrysalishood, name TBA. Carle and ILMLC are still eating. I captured all four in the following picture without even realizing it. Can you find them all?

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