Back last September I posted on finding a Spicebush Swallowtail Butterfly caterpillar and feeding it on sassafrass leaves until it transformed into a chrysalis.
Well, yesterday it emerged from the chrysalis.
It’s kind of a crummy shot because it insists on staying by a very bright window so everything is overexposed. But it’s a wonderful harbinger of spring. and after Princess Sack of Potatoes gets to see it on Tuesday it will be released into the great outdoors and hopefully will be fruitful and multiply.
A small win for the forces of life against the dark powers of death. I’ll take them where I find them.
I like it as a caterpillar.
Yeah, it’s a colorful job of camouflage.
Nice story with great pictures and patience.
Thanks Neil. Even as a kid living in the heart of New York City I always looked for some natural history, even if it was just insects in a few overgrown lots.