Saturday, April 04, 2009

Hanging In There

I don't know where it was hiding, but the caterpillar is still alive:






I have a hard time getting a good picture of it because our camera wants to focus on the wooden fence in the background and make the tiny caterpillar up front look fuzzy. Still you can probably see the molted skin off behind the caterpillar in this picture -


I read online that eating milkweed makes the caterpillars build up certain chemicals that are poisonous to their predators, which may explain why this guy has survived despite our prowling lizards.