Thread:Thefoundjammer0/@comment-33999335-20180119161142/@comment-30921738-20180723174341

it was.....

AWESOME!

but it turned out to be 85% driving. it took us 8 hours to drive to the hotel, then 3 hours to drive from the hotel to my great grandmas house.

once we got to the hotel, we swam a bit in the pool, then drove 3 hours to a resturaunt with our grandma by our great grandmas nursing home. at the resturaunt, i found a beautifully giant slightly furry spider and screamed in joy. i also found a dead regal fritillary butterfly on our grandmas truck. there was also a giant winged grasshopper that was alive, but it was hurt and bleeding, so i picked it up in a napkin and set it in a clump of grass.

after the resturaunt, we drove to my great grandmas nursing home, which was only a minute away. after meeting her for the first time since i was a baby, we drove the 3 hours back to our hotel.

minutes after waking up and eating breakfast, we were kicked out of the hotel. we packed up and drove the 3 hours back to our great grandmas nursing home for her birthday party. but we were early, so we went and ate lunch at the resturaunt we had eaten at the day before. there, i found a male monarch that had peacfully died in a pot of flowers outside. i decided to leave it because it looked a like a decoration and was actually kind of pretty. then we went back to the nursing home and had the party. i helped serve everyone icecream and cake.

i drew a picture of a monarch butterfly for my great grandma, then we left to go home. we had to stop every hour because my dad had to go to the bathroom. at one stop, i walked to the back of the gas station and found something on the pavement. to my surprise, it was the forewing of a painted lady. i'm not exactly sure if it was an americal painted lady or a west coast lady, but it was one of them.

seconds later, i found something else on the pavement. it was the forewing of a regal fritillary. i showed my sister, then went back and saw, yet again, the hindwing of another butterfly, which was a monarch. i went further back and found a bunch of butterfly wings scattered around behind a trashcan. the forewing of a yellow female alfalfa, the forewing of a white female alfalfa, the forewing of a male alfalfa, the hindwing of another male alfalfa, the hindwing of a regal fritillary, and another painted lady forewing. I found a few others, but i wasn't able to grab them because i had to get back in the car.

anyway, i put them all in a plastic bag so i could identify them at home, and we drove on. it eventually became nighttime, and we got to see a beautiful sunset. we stopped at many gas stations, one of which had a huge bug on the wall. i wanted to get it down so i could see what it was, so nkurle and i started throwing leaves at it. at the exact same time, this random dude cam over and saw us throwing things at the wall, which he probably didn't know were leaves because it was dark outside. i got super embarassed and ran into the car.

we bought some juice, and i got some that was dragonfruit flavored, but sadly, the label said that it wouldn't make me breathe fire. anyway, we got home past midnight and all immediately fell asleep. before i got in bed, though, i saw that my second red admiral caterpillar had made its chrysalis!

TIMESKIP TO YESTERDAY

i woke up to see the third, and last, red admiral caterpillar preparing to make its chrysalis. by that, i mean it was spinning silk everywhere and literally making a web around itself. i went outside, admiring the lovely sun and the giant dog that was trying to break through the fence so it could attack our dog, when my sister GASPED.

she said something like 'IS THAT CATERPILLAR?!"

i waz leik "what what what what what what what what what is it!"

she pointed at the ground and i gasped too. in the grass was the most ENORMOUS caterpillar i had ever seen. it was three inches long and twice as wide as my thumb. i bent down and observed it, and it actually was a caterpillar.

i ran into the house and grabbed my caterpillar book as fast as lightning. i found out that it was the fully-grown caterpillar of a polyphemus moth, the most common, and probably the biggest, of the giant silkmoths. at that second, our neighbor peeked over the fence (he had the dog that was trying to attack ours, but he is much nicer than his dog) and was leik 'hey wut you lookin at'

i say 'SUPER GIANT CATURPILLAR!' and showed him. he didn't like bugs, but even he was impressed by our giant find. anyway, he was going to fix the fence so his dog and our dog would quit fighting and trying to break through.

SO i put the giant caterpillar in our spare cage and plopped a few leaves in. it was OBVIOUSLY going to make its cocoon soon, so i also put some dead leaves in where it could make its cocoon inside. it started spinning silk, and picking up leaves and attaching them to the ceiling of the cage with silk. (not only was he/she big, but also strong!)

TIMESKIP TO TODAY

i woke up to have my bedroom light on, a disturbing dream lingering in my mind, and a GIANT blob of white silk replacing the giant caterpillar. and the red admiral was still taking its sweet time and was still hanging exactly like it had been when i went to bed. SOOOOOOO

yeah