Archive for August 28th, 2009

The caterpillars took their leave.

I helped the first bunch find new homes. Two went to neighborhood kids. Six went to an elementary school librarian who planned to take them to friends and several classrooms.

We had six left. Munching happliy. We were planning to take pictures images of their transformation. When we went out to walk this evening, however, the remaining caterpillars had disappeared. Poof!

Richard suggests they left because their food supply had been depleted. Maybe. Maybe they noticed that their buddies had been removed. We’ll have to get back in touch with some of our adopters to see if we can get photographs of the chrysalis and adult stages.