Metamorphosis 2: Caterpillar eating lime leaf

The video following the first one when this caterpillar was still so tiny. It's only been just over a week and it looks so well-fed.

This is definitely the caterpillar of the common Lime Butterfly. Soon it's going to turn into a chrysalis, but when it does it takes 2 more weeks until we'll see a butterfly.

Update 29 Aug 2009:
My caterpillars didn't make it :'((

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• green
• caterpillar
• smooth
• grown
• eating
• lime
• leaf
• plant
• tree
• common
• butterfly
• tropical
• swallowtail
• lemon
• chequered

[kisanira]

That's sad.What happened to the caterpillar ?

[BeautifulTrauma]

@kisanira Hi... unfortunately I never knew. My guess is that a bird came by... and yeah... :(

[MouseNibble]

You know its weird sometimes because they move like frame by frame or like they move stop move then stop except when they eat, they are beautiful as butterflies, raised 2 of them

[BeautifulTrauma]

@MouseNibble Haha. Robotronic in some way. And sometimes they seem confused when they reach the end of the stem and have to turn back. They never stop eating (or pooping)... and as butterflies, yes! Majestic.

[cbohar84]

It's munching away like nobodie's business XD

[BeautifulTrauma]

@cbohar84 Yeah. It was really interesting to watch. LOL.

[kisanira]

@BeautifulTrauma Uh,I thought the caterpillar was protected .Without protection,they face so many dangers : parasites,predators...

[BeautifulTrauma]

@bvilla1100 I actually didn't find out. Haha. No idea. Wish I knew how to tell the difference.

[BeautifulTrauma]

@Destroyer470 lol.. sorry to hear. But yeah. My lime tree was pretty much dead afterwards.

[bvilla1100]

is it a he or a she??