One of natures many wonders
Posted: Wed May 09, 2007 2:17 am
While mowing the grass a month or so ago, I came across this cocoon, always being a bug nut, I confirmed it was a butterfly or moth and brought it in the house. Yesterday after coming in from a night sitting around the campfire, there is this GIANT Polyphemus moth hanging on the screen in my bedroom window. We awed over it and only after about 5 minutes of looking at it did it hit me, it had hatched from the cocoon! I went back into my room and found the cocoon where I had left it on my shelf of goodies with a nice clean hole bored right in the end of it. The pictures taken outside were taken this morning; he was still hanging there resting when I came in from yard work this evening. Pretty cool I thought. Anyway I thought you might enjoy seeing it.






P.S, ten points to the person who can identify the majority of the items on my shelf of goodies






P.S, ten points to the person who can identify the majority of the items on my shelf of goodies
