On Wednesday, our friends from up the street showed up at our door with this little jewel of a bug....they had found him in their garden. They of course knew of the bug obsession that exists in our house, so they brought him as a gift :) Bradley was of course THRILLED- even if it did take him a bit to warm up enough to the critter to touch it. The girls were still snoozing (more on that in a bit), so they didn't get to fully enjoy the thing until the next day, but Bradley and I marveled at how HUGE this thing is- in case you can't tell it's a gigantic, green, caterpillar- we made him a little home in the empty ice cream tub I had saved for just such an occasion. The first thing Bradley asks is "What do caterpillarth eat?" and then ran outside to get some grass and leaves. We were all really enthralled in the whole thing and got really excited about this huge caterpillar. I couldn't help but get them all excited thinking about how big of a butterfly this thing would have to make, and they were getting their hopes all up for watching it make a cocoon and bla bla bla....
Needless to say- the kids were not thrilled, and it has lost a few, very loyal fans......hopefully it dies before it gets it's chance at the adult stage.
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Tyler caught one of those and kept it in a glass in the garage for a few weeks w/ absolutely nothing else in the glass. Even wtih no food, it survived, made a cocoon, and turned into that giant moth. It is probably still living in the county dump since Ty FINALLY threw it in the garbage. Nasty.
EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YUCK!! I have seen one of those moths before, freaked me out!! Good luck with that pet,Ha Ha. But look how much your kids are learning from that thing.
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