She and Steven picked it up and put it in a mason jar with a leaf and some sticks in it and some holes on top of the jar lid.
After a week, Professor Cubby worm stopped moving. It was very sad. She asked us to keep him until Memaw and Nah Nah came to our house for Christmas.
When they got here, she tearfully showed them Professor Cubby worm. She cried because "he never got to celebrate his first Christmas".
I was ready to throw him away and get the dead caterpillar jar off of my kitchen counter, but mom stopped me. She asked me to look at him again.
He wasn't dead! It was a Christmas miracle. He had turned himself into a pupa.
Mom even poked at him with a blunt pair of scissors and he moved around.
I read on the internet that it took about a week to 2 weeks for a moth to hatch from the pupa. So, I expected him to hatch around Christmas day.
However, after Christmas, he wasn't emerging. He stopped moving.
Crap. Now, what was I going to do with Professor Cubby worm? I mean, the guy went to college and got himself all educated!
Maggie was staring at him this afternoon and started screaming.
Yep. Professor cubby worm emerged. He is sitting on the leaf. Tomorrow, he will be released into the wild. What a wild trip!
2 comments:
Aren't we lucky to have gone on this trip! We now have a better understanding of the life cycle of a moth! God Bless America!
OMG..I can't believe it!! Professor Cubby Worm is going out to educate other young moths. Take pictures. I want to see him. I feel like he is one of my kids since I sort of saved his life, although I could have ended it with those scissors!
Adjxzasly yours,
Memaw
Word verification: adjxzas - to put a scrubbing cleaners on the classifieds
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