Shine
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it's a long shot i suppose, but have any of you ever had a pet caterpillar?
i found a caterpillar place to post this, but it doesn't look like anyone replies to all the pleading questions from gimping idiots that won't just throw out a creepy crawlie...
his name is
creepy
he's very
cute
i'm afraid he's going to
die
i found a caterpillar place to post this, but it doesn't look like anyone replies to all the pleading questions from gimping idiots that won't just throw out a creepy crawlie...
i had to go back over the post after i wrote it to change all the "him"s to "it"s. hard-hearted non-anthropomorphologist me.i'm in dublin city. i found a green caterpillar in a christmas tree i brought home a couple of days ago. it is about 2 or 2 and a half inches long, silky smooth bright green with a pale stripe on either side. i stuck it in a little box with a bit of the tree, a few leaves from outside and from the fridge. it's been chomping away on the flat-leaf parsley and pooing - so i think it's doing ok. (although the poo is a worrying shade of dark green!)
i found this caresheet which is pretty comprehensive http://www.projects.ex.ac.uk/bugclub/cater.html.
my question is, it being inside, am i just fooling it into thinking it should be eating and growing when it should be overwintering? maybe it was up in the christmas tree looking for a place to pupate? how do i know if it's ready to do that? should i provide it with some earth and twigs and space to do that in? i'd like to put it outside (small "garden"). it's not too cold. just very very wet. but it's not from here, i don't know what it'd eat out there and i just have a sneaking suspision i'd be sending it off to certain death... i don't know. thanks for any help!
his name is
creepy
he's very
cute
i'm afraid he's going to
die