Hungry, hungry caterpillars (cool pics)

[prolesunited]

More here
http://cu.motherearthnews.com/pages/gallery.php?gallery...

[Call Me Wesley]

1. Awww, they get what the can ...

It's not like they tear up mountain-tops or something.

And here's what they become:

[prolesunited]

2. This is an anise swallowtail, so it will look like this

[Call Me Wesley]

3. They're pretty similar looking;

looked like a black swallowtail to me.

[prolesunited]

4. Hey, you got the swallowtail part right off

I had to research this.

Wouldn't mind either flitting around my back yard.

[tigereye]

5. oh, I've seen those around... cool!

they love their dill, eh?

[eppur_se_muova]

13. I thought those were monarchs at first, same colors ...

different pattern. I guess they're mimicking a toxic, icky-tasting relative to fool the birds.

[Ptah]

6. Thanks for the pictures and link.

[Cass]

7. Very cool pics. They remind me a little of the monarch caterpillars.

I get a lot of them in my yard and love keeping tabs on their transformation!

[Brigid]

8. They are going to be beautiful.

Too bad I never see any around here.

[Brigid]

9. They are going to be beautiful.

Too bad I never see any around here.

[likesmountains 52]

10. So pretty..thanks

[prolesunited]

11. Oh noes!

Fatty ran away. (Jason named them this morning.)

[cwydro]

12. Gonna be some pretty butterflies!

[petronius]

14. Beautiful! I especially like that second image, with the caterpillar on every stalk

I'm guessing a gardener would take a dimmer view of these creatures, however - I'm pretty sure my mom would burst into flames at that second picture...

[prolesunited]

15. I am a gardener

but this was a pot of "volunteer" dill that I had transplanted from my herb garden. I have plenty more, and I was happier that they were confined to that pot and not my herb patch.

P.S. Now I'm down to two. The others wandered off to cocoon elsewhere.

[Mugu]

16. Who doesn't like caterpillars?