Our 5-year-old son got a "butterfly garden" for his birthday and I promptly sent off for his butterfly "larvae" so we can watch as mother nature unfolds her beauty before us. Well, it's gross, not beautiful, and slightly alarming...
Okay these are pretty benevolent and kind of cute actually… little “baby” caterpillars.
Looking less cute and more like those gross centipedes that make their way into your tent when you are trying to enjoy nature by camping in it.
ew, now they are making yucky webs and leaving their pooh everywhere… and did I just see a piece of caterpillar fall off and get snared in their own web? Gross…
Seriously… how much bigger are they going to get and I swear to God they are watching me with their shiny black eyes… At this stage I’m reminded of the movie Tremors…
See the similarities??
Okay, now they are just toying with me… seriously – do they have to roll their pooh next to the plastic viewing area in a big mound? Gross…
This is the day they all simultaneously decided to hang upside down and do curl ups – mildly exciting to watch, just wish they didn’t web and pooh all over the damn place first…
Again… I had pictured something a little more friendly looking, and less spikey/malevolent looking when they made their cocoons… and apparently they didn’t need ALL of their caterpillar parts because they decided to leave some of their “sections” outside of their creepy place…
We (Daddy) had to move them to the butterfly habitat after they all transformed into spikey cocoons. One of them wiggled a whole lot after the move – I think that must be their leader and he was probably pissed off. After they hatch I have my doubts that they will become butterflies, and have begun realizing they will instead turn into some kind of evil parasite hell bent on entering our brains while we sleep, implant thoughts and slowly take over our bodies before they lay eggs and take over the human race. So if I start having some good ideas next week – you could question if it’s really ME or just the eggs hatching in my head…
See! Gremlin cocoons… close enough.
