Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Watching Spicebush Caterpillars., 1 by Lily_love

Lily_love wrote:
It has been a great experience to be able to watch these caterpillars from the stage of being a tiny caterpillar into various stages of development, then now. The last phase just before the cat. pupates and spins its silk and transforms into a chrysalis.

I didn't get to see the cat. purges and clears out the fluid that signals that it is about to pupate, but the stain on the cage wall is a good tell-tail -- ugh...I meant tell- tale. lol Here is the caterpillar that I named 'Autumn Star' today.