Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Guava Skipper eggs!!!, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint
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TexasPuddyPrint wrote: I pulled the leaf flap back to photograph the bugger but it quickly sewed the leaf back over itself with silk :o) You can see the empty egg and where the caterpillar chewed a channel through the leaf. The caterpillars will chew a channel on two converging sides of a leaf to form a nest or refugium. It then folds the flap over and holds it closed with silk. ~ Cat |