My Pet Caterpillar!

[Catherine]

Your baby is growing up and who knows if he is doing it right. I guess you just have to trust that he knows what he is doing. After all, he did look his space over and choose where to spin his silk. He has made it to the pupa stage. That is something. Now all you can do is watch and wait. I hope spring comes soon enough for him. If not you will be mixing up some kind of honey nectar to feed a butterfly.

Now that you mention it, silk is cruel. They let the silk worms do all the work of spinning the silk and pupating, then they kill them for the silk. For one tiny silk scarf probably dozens, maybe hundreds of silk worms were killed. They kill them when they are their most vulnerable. I think it is time we quit using real silk.

Your little caterpillar has taught us something and made us aware.