When he sent this picture to me, again I feel sorry for myself for not seeing it in actuality. Maybe if I was there, I could take many pictures of this beautiful creature. And that would be my 1st time seeing it for real. I had seen many butterflies in my whole life, but never this big.
Well, I was still glad that it chose to land beside our house where the cage was located and my husband was able to take a picture of it.
Anyways, me and my youngest son were strolling yesterday morning in the backyard and noticed that some plants' leaves were defective. I suspected another larva was attacking those poor leaves, so we examined closely one by one and found these little creatures lurking on our plants!
I went inside the house to get my phone ready to take some pictures so I may be able to share what they look like.
I was right! It was a larva, and it measures only like 2 centimeters long. My son keeps on telling me how cute it was and how he wishes he could get it into his palm. But I told him that we can't disturb it as it was sleeping. Of course, it was just an alibi since I'm afraid to touch any kind of worm, small or big.
On the other side of the same plant, I saw this brown-colored sack hanging on its stem. This one looks like a pupa to me, the next stage after larva. Well, I'm hoping this one will successfully turn into a beautiful butterfly, unlike the other one I've shared here.
Moving to the next plant, I saw some tiny grasshoppers eating the leaves. I saw 5 of them hiding in different parts of the plant but never tried removing them away from the plants.
Then on the other plant, we saw these very tiny hairy worms eating mango leaves. I've got goosebumps while taking pictures with this one. We called it "iras" in our dialect. And it was known to cause itchiness with red spots on the skin once it contacted the human body.
Again, my son wanted to keep it but told him that it would only make him scratch his whole body because of that tiny yet dangerous worm.
Lastly, are the snails. They are very tiny also that I think they measure 1 centimeter. I still don't know why they're hiding in the small bonsai tree.
Can you spot them? Yes, definitely in this picture. But you will not surely notice it if you normally stare at the bonsai tree. Examining it nearly will surprise you how many of them, hiding in small branches.
This time, I let my son get only 1 small snail crawling on one of the stone covered with very tiny plant called moss, to examine in his hands.
He was so happy with the little adventure of examining and searching for creatures hiding on the leaves of the plants. And he even ask to roam over other places in search for another set of insects. But the rain had started to drop so we decided to postpone our educational tour in the backyard next time.
Thank you for reaching up to this end of my post, 'till next time fellas.
MAAYUNG BUNTAG SA TANAN. (Good morning everyone!) 🇵🇭
Love lots,
Jonalyn
(All pictures were taken by me.)