While playing at the park in Wellsville with some friends we saw this catepillar on one of the kids' shoe. It looked fake at first. We watched it for awhile and then put it on a tree so it could go on with life. The girl whose shoe it is said that it looked like it had a walrus face. It really did! It was fun to watch the blood pulse through the vein that went down the center of the body. It was a very cool find!
I've never seen that kind of caterpillar before. Any ideas what kind of butterfly or moth it becomes?
ReplyDeleteIt is a Western Swallowtail. It changes from green to Yellow/Brown right before it goes to a chrysalis. I really wish we had brought it home now. It would've been lots of fun to watch it.
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