My Pet Caterpillar!

[Catherine]

Quote:I haven't disturbed the caterpillar's pupa at all. But it seems to be attached via webs to a dried up cabbage leaf, the very tip of an angled tiny stick,  and the floor of the container. Let's hope it will get by okay.

I am sure he chose his spot for a reason. There must be something about it that seemed right to him. I might be a better place for the butterfly to emerge.

I can understand you buying the coat to keep warm. You would have needed it. Back then fur would have been the warmest thing around and  it was second hand.

The second hand shops I go to get their things from donations. They do not support any industry. They have no control over what is given to the store. Silk from that source would not influence the silk industry.

I understand that silk worms no longer live in the wild. We have made them into a dependent creature like many of our farm animals. They may be dependent, but that doesn't mean we have a right to be cruel. We could harvest the silk after the moth has emerged. It would be perfectly good silk.

We could raise eggs and sheer sheep in ways that are not cruel. Everything we do could be done in a kinder gentler way. It is just typical of the way we farm things that we chose to boil the worms alive and steal their silk. 

I will think about the silk tie quilt. It would take years to find all the right ties.