Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Daily Butterflies Page 54, 0 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Update on the Julia Heliconian caterpillar. One died earlier this week. When I got home today it was curled up at the bottom of the cage. Sigh....

The other one is doing quite well and growing big. So are the Zebra Heliconians that are in the same cage. I was able to get a photo of the Julia and a Zebra together :o) Just noticed when I was zooming in on the photo that there is a drop of liquid on one of the Julia's spines - now seeing it zoomed larger I can see that the spine is bent/broken - guess that's where the liquid came from. Interesting...I thought those spines were solid.

The Julia has turned out to be a lovely caterpillar - really long spines with a mottled white, brown, black and red body. Way cool!

~ Cat