Pumpkerpillars...

Getting ready for Halloween, but this one pumpkin kept making funny faces.

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The condo, nursery, bassinet, and pupa pad...
Tools...
Time for chow...
Beware store-bought food!
The preferred foods...
Convergence...
Eggs!
Hatching and Newborn...
Reasoning with a youngster...
Odd coloration...
Pumpkerpillars...
Twins... A tiny wasp larva intervenes...

Don't toss out that drowned cat!
Silk...
Frass...
Something there is in a fennel plant that loves a caterpillar egg...
Cats can be a handful... Applying low voltage...
Molting--shedding the skin and head capsule...
Time to roam...
Contortion...spinning the silken harness
It's pupating where??
What is that weird thing?!

Dunno--that pupa looks sort of dead...
No harness? Stop worrying...
Emergence...
The butterfly...
Girl or Boy?
The fabulous flying machine...
Full Span...
The antennae...
The proboscis...
Do caterpillars "see"? The ocelli...
Close-up...
Home Feeding...
Lifespan Timeline...
Lepidopteran Links...