Shakespeare Garden Cocoon News

The Shakespeare Garden caterpillar-to-cocoon-to-butterfly story just reached its conclusion. It happened sometime yesterday before anybody arrived to check. That was around noon.

Black Swallowtail caterpillar day before transformation to cocoon- Oct 2, 2005

Cocoon on October 3, the day it was created
Photo by Lloyd Spitalnik

Cocoon November - one month later
Photo by M. Winn

Empty Cocoon - May 11, 2006
Photo by M. Winn