Saturday, September 12, 2009

Giant Silkmoth

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A couple years ago, when we lived in our wonderful farmhouse, we had the pleasure of seeing this beauty....







Well, yesterday, our neighbor boy was walking through the grass and found this...





It is the caterpillar of a giant silkmoth. We don't know what variation it is, but this morning it looked like this....


Forming a cocoon.

So eventually, we will find out what kind it is. In the Spring! It will emerge as a moth, and live only a few days before dying. Which means it was all the more amazing to see that moth that we saw a few years ago.

How cool!

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