Meet Spooky. We found him gorging on our grape tomato plant. We plucked him from his own personal heaven to become a pet of two very interested and hands on boys. He is officially called a tobacco hornworm. The pictures don't do him justice. He is huge and the amount of leaves he can devour is frightening!
Ben brought him in for share day and I made him write a report. (It's crazy that Ben couldn't even write 2 months ago! Thank you Kindergarten and positive peer pressure!) On Sunday, he stopped eating and began his "wandering" phase in preparation for his metamorphosis. In the last week, he has shrunk and is turning brown. It's fun to watch. It sounds like he will become a chrysalis for about 18 days and emerge a Carolina Sphinx moth with a wing span of 5-6 inches.
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