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Waldo On The Move
Tue Sep 21 2010

So last night I looked in on Waldo just after dinner time and found him in the standard “J” position of a caterpillar preparing to pupate. According to the book, that meant he was due to pupate in 24 hours. This morning Waldo was still “hanging in there”.

Around 10:00 this morning I went downstairs to work on some beads, taking a peak at Waldo on the way by. I came up at 11:00 and discovered that caterpillars pupate a lot faster than I realized:


4 Comments
  • From:
    Yetzirah (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Sep 21 2010
    Now I would love to have seen a time lapse of THAT event. Who knew it was so fast???

    Amazing!
  • From:
    404Error (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Sep 21 2010
    Wow! From caterpillar to pupa in an hour? That's really amazing! How long does he (or she) stay in this stage before becoming a butterfly?
  • From:
    KiwiKimi (Legacy)
    On:
    Tue Sep 21 2010
    Go Waldo! That *is* fast.
  • From:
    TexanElf (Legacy)
    On:
    Thu Sep 23 2010
    Oh, cool!

    (Stupid hotmail put notifications in my junk folder, then stupid DD was down.)