A few months ago while Tony was visiting his moms house, they found these very funny looking caterpillers on her lemmon tree.... They looked like bird-poo. Well one afternoon while Tyler and I were checking out our grapefruit tree, we found a HUGE "bird-poop" on one of our leaves... I really did think it was a big poo until it's little antanna poped out. So... we thought (since it was pretty cold outside and getting colder... this was in November, that we would bring her in). Tyler picked fresh grapefruit leaves each day and finally after some time, our beautiful bird-poo caterpiller, papilio polyxenes, or more commonly known as the Black Swallowtail Butterfly transformed from a small caterpiller, to a huge caterpiller, into her chrysalis, and then into our beautiful Jessica. :-) We decided to let her join her other butterfly friends after seeing the amazing transformation!
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