caterpillar nursery

I found these cats on my lima bean vines and it looked like it might be a longtailed skipper. Ive never seen one and so I came up with this make-shift nursery from a wire basket and panty hose. The small vial holds the stems of bean leaves.

Yup, those are Long Tailed Skippers. Congratulations!

Melanie

I guess I need to plan some lima beans somewhere next year! Great find Marty.

skippers love those beans..

Way cool!!!

I keep forgetting to plant Lima beans!

Note to self: PLANT THOSE LIMA BEANS!!!

Here is the skipper that I showed the caterpillar about two months ago. It took 42 days in my kitchen.

That is cool....

I have never seen any this far north , However a few years ago the web news was talking about them as far north as southern Ohio ,
That is really interesting as something I did not know.. Thank you ,, really !!!

Thanks, juhur. This was my first time to ever take a caterpillar from the wild but it was getting cold and I wondered if it would make it outdoors. It was really exciting to see him after such a long time. I had given up hope that he was still alive. He looked like a tiny blue green bird.