If you read my earlier posts, you know my little boy and I have been trying to raise Eastern Black Swallowtail butterflies from caterpillars. Sadly, we haven't had a lot of success yet. We started with three caterpillars, but lost one in the car before...
I wrote before about how within 24 hours of bringing home our caterpillars, one of them spun his cocoon, and 24 hours later the new cocoon fell from the branch, which I thought meant it was dead. After a couple days I told my son to take the cocoon outside...