Caterpillars devour, but butterflies pollinate. When the butterfly flits from flower to flower, it pollinates each in turn. A butterfly drinks its world, using its coiled straw of a mouth to sip nectar. Where the caterpillar devoured everything, the butterfly has no ability whatsoever to eat solid food. An entirely different creature emerges: an adult butterfly. Not one feathery leaf remained.īut suddenly, the caterpillar crawls away, hangs upside down and transforms into a chrysalis - its body parts magically melting inside a shell to rearrange as a completely different body. The plan worked: The dill raised about 15 caterpillars, but the plants were skeletons when the caterpillars were done. Last year, I planted a stand of dill to attract black swallowtail caterpillars.
Tent caterpillars ravage the Schuylkill Center’s cherry trees every spring gypsy moths consume whole landscapes.
A living weed-whacker, caterpillars plow through living plants, mercilessly devouring leaves, bent on defoliation. As someone who worries about climate change, I have stumbled upon a powerful way to save the world.Ĭonsider the butterfly - born as a humble, often ugly, caterpillar. It’s high summer, which brings with it erratic weather patterns, fierce storms, rising tides, raging stormwater pouring through our communities and other climate-change concerns.
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