Sunday after church, we found the biggest caterpillar I have ever seen, crawling on the eaves of the house. The kids caught it, and put it in a tank, just for temporary purposes, so we could all see it. I also wanted to go to http://www.whatsthatbug.com/ to try to find out what kind it was. Well, it was a few hours before I actually got to sit down long enough to really look at it, and this is what I found.


That silly little thing was spinning a cocoon on the side of the tank!!! Poor buggar eventually fell, crawled onto a stick and tried again. But, once again he fell. I think maybe he is too fat to hang on! He is now under a leaf, against the stick, and he's cocooned himself up inside, so we can't see him. I tried to pull some of the leaves and un-used sticks out of the way, so maybe I could get a picture, but is all fastened tight together with the cocooning thread. I never realized it was that strong. So, until the metamorphism, we have a new pet named Fred. I still have not figured out what kind he is, but I have not finished looking at whats that bug. They say they get really fat like that when they are ready to pupate.