The first caterpillar finished his cocoon ~48 hours ago. I very carefully cut the cocoon open, and I'm hoping to capture a timelapse of the transformation into a pupa using an old iphonepic.twitter.com/Gs6PLyHmwU
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(Cutting it open doesn't interrupt the process?)
It shouldn't, but AFAICT this might be the first attempt at capturing video for this particular species, so it's possible that this will stress him out too badly to continue. I'll definitely feel awful if that happens
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I always assumed the cocoon was the thing that contained the goo when it was undergoing transformation.
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SAME! I’m blown away.
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Ooh, I see. I hope it goes well!
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