Metamorphosis...Finally! **updated!

It's been a busy day. Our basement was leaking last night--it seeped in quite a bit. That gets a big ARRGH! :) Hubby estimated we've had a foot of rain. Not sure how accurate that is. We're hoping our polliwogs didn't get overflowed out of the fishpond! But, our pool in the back is full of tadpoles, as well, so there will be more to watch hopefully. The pool is as full as it's ever been. Anyway, Hubby thinks the basement leaked because the gutters were plugged with maple helicopters. ARRGH. We're drying things out.




In better news, one of our cocoons saw some action today! We thought maybe they were dead--they've been cocooned in a jar since September. We didn't get to see our Luna Moth emerging, but I looked out this afternoon and saw some big green wings in our jar, so of course we all ran out to see. It has crawled a stick out of the jar and seems to be letting its wings dry and such.


The moth came out of the brown, webby looking thing toward the bottom of the jar. In the pic below, you can kind of see the hole it came out of, below and between its wings. We're going to have a closer look at that cocoon once the moth is out of the way!

Princess drew me a butterfly picture afterward. :)
**I searched online and found out that Luna Moths don't have mouths! They don't eat--only live for a week to mate, then die. Very interesting. Ours was hanging out outside the screened-in porch for a couple days, then was gone.