tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12033780.post7315313210693677339..comments2024-01-05T01:53:05.878-08:00Comments on Am I Bugging You Yet?: March of the Chenilles 2010 Part Deuxvanessa carduihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01276966298881636176noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12033780.post-12686035791979716532010-04-19T12:06:26.541-07:002010-04-19T12:06:26.541-07:00From what I can see, the pupa looks complete, just...From what I can see, the pupa looks complete, just the old skin is still there. Can you tease it off with a toothpick?. If it's really stuck on there good, I would still try to attach it to a twig or something so it can hang head down. I once reattached a fallen monarch chrysalis to a twig with spider silk. You poke a stick into a spider web and use a circular motion to wind the silk around the stick. Then you wind that silk around the point where you are going to attach the chrysalis to another twig. You're kind of lashing the chrys. to the stick with the spider silk. (Does that make sense?)Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08011749964154446809noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12033780.post-28675085177979083822010-04-19T09:08:39.689-07:002010-04-19T09:08:39.689-07:00I rigged it up on a piece of cardboard (Morbid!! s...I rigged it up on a piece of cardboard (Morbid!! sayeth my daughter when she saw it) so it could hang in about a regular position, to see if gravity would help. It didn't, the shed and head are still attached. The pupa is now in a plastic bowl on my garden bench. Do you think it might develop? Maybe I'll find a way to hang it (glue?) and see if anything butterfly-like comes of it.vanessa carduihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01276966298881636176noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12033780.post-20162463329157724892010-04-18T20:30:37.080-07:002010-04-18T20:30:37.080-07:00Once again, I am amazed and delighted to find you ...Once again, I am amazed and delighted to find you are blogging about stuff that I am currently interested in and/or observing. Maybe it's because in spite the wide worldliness of the Web, we are practically neighbors, geographically speaking. <br /><br />Anyhoo, the bird! This Bewick's wren might be the same kind of unfamiliar bird I've been seeing hanging around my back yard for several weeks, singing a song I was not familiar with. In the morning I will compare online recordings of the song to what I'm hearing outside. (mostly in the telephone wires right above my Chinese elm, I might add) <br /><br />What happened with the guy who pupated on your brick patio?Cindyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08011749964154446809noreply@blogger.com