Baby Catepillars

October 12, 2007

I was up early one morning when I saw black spots on the wall in the living room. Wait a minute, they were not black spots, they were tiny baby caterpillars, less than 1cm in length.

So I took an A4-size paper, let them crawl on it and put them under the morning sunlight, whipped my camera and here they are.

I noticed that each time I put them under the sun so that I can have better lighting for my camera, they would huddle away into the shadow and would remain there. Two of them tried to venture into the sunlight, but quickly retreated.

After taking their pictures, and believe me it was not easy taking them with the super-macro mode on as they kept on moving, I took them downstairs and released them in the park.

Some of them might have survived and grown to become butterflies. If they were, there was no way of telling.

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