Mar 24: Building Blocks

Caterpillar Name: Butter Butt & Hot Wings
Adoption Day Number: 6

What does they look like?
Our caterpillars are huge! The fuzziness now looks like tiny cactus pikes. If we look close enough, we can see the face. The first 3 pairs of legs look like black thorns with candy cane stripes. The rest of the look like tiny suction cups! Four pairs are in the middle of body and one pair at the very end. The mouth kind of looks like a bunnies. The tip of the face has a tiny white stripe just above the mouth. One of the caterpillars presses his face against the cup and we can see him eating or licking the food from the side of container.

They have been forming their food into snowball shapes and stacking them like a pyramid. At 2:40pm, one of the caterpillars climbed to its lid and circulated up there. The suction cup legs keep the body from falling down! He swigs his body back and forth as if looking something. He tore off the webbing it had made just a few days before and we think he at it.

What do we think will happen next?
We think he is getting ready to form into the next stage!