Wander Wednesday: Local Caterpillars

For a few days, we housed Wooly who was obsessed with clover!
Find a clean jar, line the bottom with wet paper towel, provide fresh clover and clean 'frass' (poop) daily.

https://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/butterfly/activities/printouts/Woollybear.shtml
You can learn about their parts and bristles (setae), which they use to make their cocoons.
http://somethingscrawlinginmyhair.com/2012/05/23/isabella-moth/#more-7059

Louisa May Alcott is best known for Little Women, but we bought her storybook Flower Fables, which has a long and lovely poem about a clover housing a lowly worm that morphs into a butterfly: Clover-Blossom.

When we went searching milkweed along the roadside for Monarch caterpillars, we ended up discovering Tussock caterpillars instead. They need up to three milkweed leaves a day which you can watch them devour on the spot!

The third type of moth we're witnessing is the Gypsy Moth (not beneficial to your farm or garden).
But we can watch the entire life cycle on a single tree.