Four of the five caterpillars successfully cocooned themselves. The fifth, who may or may not have been named George, seemed to have forgotten to stop eating. He was found unmoving partially tunneled into his food one morning.
The others are fully chrysalis-ed (what would be the correct verb?) now, but I found the process quite interesting. First, a caterpillar hangs from, in this case, a piece of paper at the top of the jar. It appears that just two of its feet suspend the entire body for at least a day before it begins to wrap itself up, head first. At least one still had a little “fur” sticking out of the very top of the cocoon. I can’t wait to see what happens in 7-10 days!
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