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04-12-2020, 05:07 PM
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Caterpillar to Chrysalis & Beyond.

6 days ago I noticed a caterpillar crawling up the sun lounge window on the outside. Weird I thought & why! It stopped about half way up the window & started spinning a cocoon. These are the pics I took up to today. From inside looking out on it.

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04-12-2020, 05:09 PM
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Day 2.


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04-12-2020, 05:10 PM
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Day 3.


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04-12-2020, 05:12 PM
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04-12-2020, 05:13 PM
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Day 5.


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04-12-2020, 05:14 PM
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Day 6. It now looks like a pupa.


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04-12-2020, 05:41 PM
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How lovely to be able to watch the changes!
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04-12-2020, 05:54 PM
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That is amazing, Tiff. Smashing pics.
You are so lucky to be able to see the changes so close up each day.
I wonder if it will stay like that over winter now, then hatch out in the spring?
I hope when it does hatch, you can watch it and it doesn't do it in secret one night.
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04-12-2020, 05:59 PM
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Amazing photos Tiff and good thinking by you to record the stages of the chrysalis. 👍
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04-12-2020, 06:26 PM
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Thank you ST, Mups & Mags.
I have no idea what caterpillar it is, I don't think it's a butterfly or moth, I think it's a Sawfly, but I'm not certain. I'll add pics a day at a time as long as it's hanging there. It might fall off, but if it does it'll hopefully land in the window box under it. If that happens I might be able to rescue it. I can't get it from the outside as it's too far up to reach, if I could have I'd have got it & put it in a box, but as it is it'll have to take it's chance to hatch into whatever.
 
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