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Mr Marmalade update - UPDATE
15 years ago
Oh noes, an opinione! He's started to go into his happy chrysalis!
At first I thought he might've popped it but after carefully tipping him out I saw that gasp, dark brown chrysalis!
I gently picked him up to put him back in the jar and IT TWITCHED ABOUT AND SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH.
I wasn't aware they could do that.
Aaaagh.
Also SO EXCITED.
I have popped him in a layer of slug pellet free potting material from one of the hanging baskets and in a different container. I'm going to pop him in the garage once it starts getting cooler and next spring I'll have to get him out!
At first I thought he might've popped it but after carefully tipping him out I saw that gasp, dark brown chrysalis!
I gently picked him up to put him back in the jar and IT TWITCHED ABOUT AND SCARED ME HALF TO DEATH.
I wasn't aware they could do that.
Aaaagh.
Also SO EXCITED.
I have popped him in a layer of slug pellet free potting material from one of the hanging baskets and in a different container. I'm going to pop him in the garage once it starts getting cooler and next spring I'll have to get him out!
Though I'll have to wait until next year before I get a hawkmoth!
Oooh I wish we got luna moths here. I do love what we have, though.
Can't wait until next spring!
Can't wait to see if I was right about him being an eyed hawkmoth, they look so pretty!
And good luck with you and your mothies :D
Thanks! I'm sorta sad that I'm gonna hafta let some of them go fend for themselves in the wild when they start to hatch.. but I don't think I can take care of 150 little caterpillars at once. *fallover*
Or she.
I dunno how one sexes caterpillars...or chrysalises...