Monday, 19th July 2010
I didn't put the day and date because something memorable happened, I didn't use it because I wanted it to look cool, but just because, I didn't know what other title to put.
It's been a while since I last updated. It seems my passion for blogging is dying once again.... or maybe it's because I've dedicated too much time to this virtual video animated game called "MapleStory" again =.="
Anyway, it's been holidays for me, and without knowing it, it's nearly coming to an end!! With 2 more weeks to spare, I'm trying my best to enjoy my last days of being able to eat home cooked food and just sit around while my mom does all the housework, heheh *evil smile* coz I have to do everything myself when I go back to miri.
But then again, being in KK, without enough Ringgit Malaysia's so spend, and nothing much to do, is actually pretty dull. So dull that I even spent time to scrutinize the potted plants that's been sitting outside on my balcony for 1 1/2 years..... And guess what? I found this~!
A green creepy crawler eating up all the young shoots off the tip of the plant!!
Upon informing my mom about it, she made the decision to throw it as far as it could fly. But then, me.... having nothing better to do, came up with the idea to let it live and see what becomes of it ^_^
Kinda scary eh... when you look at it closely.... reminds me of Pokemon Caterpie...
So having a fried computer, for those of you who knew, yes, my lappy got fried due to malfunction of the cooling fan... or something.... and I had 1 week with virtually NOTHING to do.... anyway, so having a fried computer and nothing much to do, I inspected the plant and the crawler on it every few hours.... and the very next day, I found it'd moved and gone to the bottom to get some shade.
A night later... while I was sound asleep... it turned into...
PUPA~
Too bad I wasn't around to see it spin it out. I never thought that he'd be doing it during Midnight~!!
Then slowly.... 2 days passed... nothing happened... 5 days, not much change. A week of uneventful happenings for the pupa went pass, while I had already gone for a couple of rounds of Call of Duty, had BBQ fish with friends, and even got my computer repaired.
Then somewhere around day 9, the colour of the pupa changed a bit.
It looked.... darker and.... drier... 0_0 and I thought it was a long way more to until... on the 10th Midnight... I was about to do a quick checkup on it's progress and saw.... ....
It was OUT~
And it was BIG~! Here's a 'Plant to Butterfly' ratio photo for your viewing. Basically, the wings were about as big as the palm of my hand.
And gosh... this is actually the first time I had a close look at a REAL BUTTERFLY.
Just look at those eyes.... and the tongue to go with... or proboscis... or whatever that's called =.=
Another pic... ^_^
10 Days. The amount of time it took to turn from a scary looking greenish trailer-like bug, into a huge (well, I think it's huge), colourful and amusing piece of artwork.
Somehow, I'm happy with the decision of not throwing it out the window. ^_^
5 comments:
wow, beautiful...
I had a pot of flowers too last time, and it was infested with these green caterpillars, so many... @_@ 多到我都傻眼了……
But my mum couldn't stand them, she was afraid they would grow and fly to her another "expensive" flower pots so she ask my kakak to throw away my flower pot. So sad... cuz who would know they would turn into such beautiful creatures...
Of course, still need your wonderful photographing skills to take these wonderful photos... hehe...
Haha... yea... Actually last sem when I came back there were 4 of them!! But my mom took the chopsticks and pick 1 by 1 and throw far far =.="
But before they turn into pupa.... they eat a LOT! and you will see a whole 'section' of the plant missing, hahaha... but in the end, when they turn into butterfly, you will feel that... it's worth it, hahaha~
-BiRD-
Lol, yup... they eat a lot... and they are massive!!! Got some got as big as my fingers. Pity that they were throw away.. Would have been a beautiful sight to see them transform... hahaha.. oh well.. what's done is done.
This is awesome. Your photographing skill + this record, not much people have this kind of experience before, all we know it is from text book =D.Last time my house also got, and I keep them all in a plastic box and feed them but dunno what happen all die in the next day..haha..
LOL.... keep in plastic box.... =.="
They eat leaves.... the young stem and shoots, haha. Maybe you feed wrong? haha.
-BiRD-
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