1 post tagged “life cycles”
There are caterpillars on the plant outside my house. We will not
squash them, because we are more interested in the metamorphisis taking
place. These caterpillars are the yellow and black caterpillars that
create the most gorgeous Monarch butterflies.
We have been watching them for some time now, and they have basically been eating the entire tree. There are very few leaves left and they are chomping away like there is no tomorrow. There is one hanging curled in upside down in the process of turning into a chrysilus (pupa). These little green pods house the butterfly inside in its development stage. They are beautiful, they have a gold thread across the green pods. Inside, there is a butterfly which breaks free after a couple of weeks, after development and then stretches and dries it's wings and flies away and starts all over again.
I have included a couple of videos, I also have some photographs of the caterpillers, inbetween stages and the chrysilus. There were also aphids on the plant, and where there are aphids there are ladybugs. No adult lady bugs to be found but I managed to find 2 larva stage ladybugs.
Now you have to notice these things, basically stop and smell the roses, and with us we are watching carefully. I think what astounds us is that these caterpillars are always in a life cycle. Like these caterpillars, every work of art also starts off as an egg, an idea being incubated, it comes out, you gather everything you need, this is where you munch and munch until you eventually have to go into a "pod" and the end product, although it's taken weeks to get there, is something beautiful, something graceful, majestic and vibrant.
I will keep you all updated on our little life cycle's process.
We have been watching them for some time now, and they have basically been eating the entire tree. There are very few leaves left and they are chomping away like there is no tomorrow. There is one hanging curled in upside down in the process of turning into a chrysilus (pupa). These little green pods house the butterfly inside in its development stage. They are beautiful, they have a gold thread across the green pods. Inside, there is a butterfly which breaks free after a couple of weeks, after development and then stretches and dries it's wings and flies away and starts all over again.
I have included a couple of videos, I also have some photographs of the caterpillers, inbetween stages and the chrysilus. There were also aphids on the plant, and where there are aphids there are ladybugs. No adult lady bugs to be found but I managed to find 2 larva stage ladybugs.
Now you have to notice these things, basically stop and smell the roses, and with us we are watching carefully. I think what astounds us is that these caterpillars are always in a life cycle. Like these caterpillars, every work of art also starts off as an egg, an idea being incubated, it comes out, you gather everything you need, this is where you munch and munch until you eventually have to go into a "pod" and the end product, although it's taken weeks to get there, is something beautiful, something graceful, majestic and vibrant.
I will keep you all updated on our little life cycle's process.
