Metamorphosis Watch: Day 8
One full week after the monarch butterfly caterpillar first crawled in front of the dime (below) and today FDR is looking at a distinctly larger larva. The leaves have changed but the dime has not. It's still worth ten cents.
We are at least five, probably six, days away from the beginning of one of the grandest evolutionary miracles in nature. Complete metamorphosis. One life form becomes another but retains its singular identity all the while. And then it has the lepidopteran wherewithall to fly to Mexico.
Stay tuned.
Click for Day 7.
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One full week after the monarch butterfly caterpillar first crawled in front of the dime (below) and today FDR is looking at a distinctly larger larva. The leaves have changed but the dime has not. It's still worth ten cents.
We are at least five, probably six, days away from the beginning of one of the grandest evolutionary miracles in nature. Complete metamorphosis. One life form becomes another but retains its singular identity all the while. And then it has the lepidopteran wherewithall to fly to Mexico.
Stay tuned.
Click for Day 7.
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