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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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A friend posted this on Facebook. I know there are caterpillars that use twigs and leaves to make their cocoon. I am just totally amazed that one caterpillar is helping the other to make its rock cocoon!!
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Chesterfield, Virginia
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I wouldn't lay any bets on it.
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Join Date: May 2009
Location: New Jersey
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It looks to me that the rocks started sticking to the cocoon while it was being spun.
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Butterfly Educator Extraordinaire
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Ventnor City, New Jersey, USA
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Darn! I guess I am just gullible...
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caterpillar, caterpillar behavior, cocoon, leaves, not real, photograph, real, rocks, twigs, woolly bear, woolly bear caterpillar |
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