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DA BUTTERFLYEEEEEEE
YAHOO IT DIDN'T DIE
my first da butter yayyy
evolution:
comrade egglemon
comrade catlemon
comrade pupalemon
comrade buttlemon
yay

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Finally its successful!!!

Borc became a butterfly on the 26th of August, a few minutes after I left school. sad. When we released Borc last night, he kept slamming into the ceiling of the HDB flat... Luckily he managed to fly out into the open.

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Hey, Chicken is a butterfly!

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So uh....

Börc pupated at the cover of the container so I cant open it. HOWEVER, I put a lot of leaves the day before it molted AND it pooped a lot.

And because I cant open it, the leaves are turning brown and the poop is decomposing. (turning white, black dots around it, super disguisting)

Will it disturb Börc when it becomes a butterfly?

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comrade lemon was spotted at the corner of the table, in pre-pupa stage(silk thread and all)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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so
comrade lemon is ready to pupate
but
he escaped
like how
now I can't find him
sad

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Comrade lemon is FAT FAT FAT FAT (insert 300 more here) hes so thick
faterpiller

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Piggy pupated 6 days ago while chicken pupated 7 days ago. The top pupa in the picture is chicken and the bottom is piggy. Mrs Ng and friends, I am worried that once Chicken develops into a butterfly, it will disturb piggy in his pupa...

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Comrade Lemon( the new cat) molted and hes now green

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2 lime fruits and also one flower whose petals have fallen off already. Probably just went through successful pollination & fertilization.

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But ZERO lime caterpillars 😅

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Hi I have two new limes thanks to meng hao! Chicken is pupating; I managed to see it, and Piggy is still eating. I'll send more pictures as soon as I can.

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Good news! My caterpillar molted again! (too bad it molted during school) Its now in its last and final instar. It is a green lime caterpillar now! I managed to take photo of the molted skin.

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I have two pupas that had the butterfly emerge but they couldn't get out of the pupa and they're wings are deformed. ( ͡ಠ ʖ̯ ͡ಠ)

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I actually saw Börc ( the name of my caterpillar ) molt! (Its a lime) It was during the school national day celebration when the colours started to change. It was quite fast and was over in a few seconds. I cant take a photo of it because Börc ate it afterwards :/

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Dear boys,

Ms Lim had found 2 caterpillars on one of her plants at home and would like to give them to 2 of you. Each caterpillar will come with a bag of leaves.

Pls reply below if you are keen and ABLE to look after one.

For the first two pupils who responded first. First-come-first-serve basis.

Remember to bring your own container on this coming Monday (8 Aug).

🐛🐛🐛

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Now it is a pupa!

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It is becoming a pupa!

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After one week, it grew a lot bigger and turned green in colour.

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These are the two lime caterpillars I found.
When I found it, it was black and green in colour.

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I went home after school and found out that my 4cm large caterpillar had disappeared! I’m guessing that it got blown onto the floor and died🐛💀and ants 🐜 took it away 💔. But the smaller 3.5cm caterpillar 🐛 is still alive 😃 and hopefully 🙏 will become a butterfly 🦋.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏Pray it will become a strong and healthy butterfly.

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My big caterpillar is so long, it is 4cm long, it is growing very fast it was 3.5cm at 2pm today.

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today i released one of the butterflies that I have. According to my mother, it didn't fly off until 9 am dunno why

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Zhirou 5-2

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The caterpillars I meant to give but couldn't have now grown. two of them are now pupa but one box with pupa still HAS A CATERPILLAR INSIDE THAT IS STARVING SLOWLY!!! But since my mother and brother also have covid, I cannot ask my mother for help with checking if they are still alive or not. At least I don't have covid anymore. got onlt one line on art kit yesterday morn.

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Larry Xu 5-3: A Great Beginning... And Now A Great End...

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Larry Xu 5-3: A Great Beginning... And Now A Great End...

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Both Smarty Pants and Cutie Pie Jr have poopated, to become Immortal Guy and Pupie Cutie Pie Jr respectively. It's a miracle that Smarty Pants pupated without touching a single leaf. He must be immortal.
Unfortunately, this is my last tawny coster. Fortunately, this may not be my last lime. I'm planting a lime plant in my condo garden so that more lime caterpillars can be born there.

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I planted the green beans and now they're soup. Yummy!🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲🍲

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Okay.
Derp is now the size of the words i'm going to type under this (plus stars).
*Elias*
99% chance he will die. Interestingly, he still moves at least 2cm a day. HOW?????

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As you know, my 2 Tawny Costers dieded already. I think they killed themselves. Thorny died while hanging with a silk thread, and Spiky killed himself by falling. I conducted the Ceremony of Loss for both of them and threw them down my chute. (It is disgusting to touch a dieded caterpillar.) I wanted my caterpillars back. So I made Spiky come alive - in a photo. (I know the photo is ugly, but it is the best I can do.) In the photo, Spiky is climbing a wall. I used photo editing to create the digital Spiky. Haha. Nice ending of a sad story. The End.

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.::Butterfly Watch Group::.

For those who are keen.
Can consider for 2023 and keep a look out on the NEA website 🦋

https://www.nparks.gov.sg/biodiversity/community-in-nature-initiative/nparks-butterfly-watch

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Yesterday, my lime became a butterfly! I released Ronel downstairs.

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Hey guys, Lucas the tawny coster died on friday, 22/7... I'm so sad. As usual type f to pay respects to lucas. Thx.

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Sharing this on the behalf of Darius.
His mum sent me the update.

Darius initially thought that his pupa had passed away…as it was in the chrysalis stage for very long.

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Dear all,

Love and enjoying everyone’s posts and sharing so far!

Many of you are very helpful & generous- whether it is about sharing knowledge on 🐛🦋,🌿 or even new 🐛 that you have caught from wild. 👏🏻👍🏼

A gentle reminder again remember to identify yourself when posting and also not to spam your comments! ;)

Let’s continue to do our part to make this place a vibrant and conducive platform to share knowledge!

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Did not see any caterpillars. Probably none of the host plants are in this section of the park.

But overall a good place to release your butterflies as there are several types of flowers observed, so a ready source of food (nectar) for your very hungry butterfree.

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Spent around 10 minutes here looking at butterflies. Quite a number of flowering plants which serve to be their source of food.

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Not a very large area but we saw around 10 -15 butterflies and many different types of flowering plants. No sighting of any bees..

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This is the Butterfly Habitat @ Bishan Park.
Had a convo with Larry last week and decided to check it out again this weekend. Came here some years ago.

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omg Fluffy became an adult butterfly!!!

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My caterpillar, bob has been a pupa for almost 3 weeks now, i suspect he has OE parasites.
press f in chat to pay respects to bob the metapod, not as a comrade, not as a pupa, not as a caterpillar, not as a friend, but as a legend.

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the chances of comrade pupalime being dieded is almost 100% now. The yellow spot have been there for 3 days, still no change, pupa for 13 days now:(

thanks to menghao im getting a new one hopefully I have more luck this time

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I think one of my caterpillars is going to pupate soon. one of them started pupating but it didn't have enough energy and dieded😭

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It's day 17 and my last caterpillar (Spiky) dieded. It shrank last night and got eaten by some ants. The picture is too gruesome to show. Sad.....

Looks like it fell from somewhere as it was upside down.

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Gustavus fell down from its stick and dieded while trying to pupate!!! :( :( :( :( :( :( :(

There be yellow stain next to it. I reckon that is blood

RIP Gustavus Adolphus

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Wow.
After glorious days of not eating and crawling around, my caterpillar is finally paying for its actions.
It's flipped over 90 degrees.
Hope he's smart enough to pupate. He's probably going to be the last one.
P.s. who saw my new profile pic

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Gustavus is finally pupating. Its hanging upside down since yesterday, but when I checked it today, its grown really really long like it has been stretched. Is there anything wrong with Gustavus? :(

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My new lime caterpillar is named Cutie Pie Junior. It tried to escape probably because it wanted to go back to the wild...

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Oh yeah, i also have this super small caterpillar.
P.S. its a lime caterpillar

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Do you guys know what my caterpillar is doing? It kinda creeped me out when I opened the box and it stuck its whatchamacallit in the air.

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These are the caterpillars that I have!

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If you want a lime caterpillar, just tell me. But you must bring your own container, the limit is two caterpillars and once you order, you cannot order again and you can't change your order. Also, if anybody with lime caterpillar wants more leaves, I would be more than happy to oblige. If you want a lime caterpillar or two, just write your name, class and index no. in the comments section. Its first come first serve as the caterpillars on the lime and lemon trees will pupate and there will have no more caterpillars. Also, the limit of orders cannot exceed 7 if everybody only orders 1 and 4 if everybody wants 2. If it is a mixture, the limit is 5 as I have to leave some caterpillars to grow and reproduce.

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Derp is derping but he hasn't eaten for four days and is moving much more slowly than usual. Hope he can pupate.
At least he didn't curl into a c or u or it would have been the end of me.

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Ok so comrade pupalime is probably dead he might be infected
Doesn’t resemble da online ones and it is 11 days now

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I think Lucas is becoming a pupa soon!

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I have released (I didn't kill Theseus) Theseus from his cage! I hope I get to see him again.

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Theseus Transformato flies around in his " holding room!"

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As Theseus emerges from the cocoon, I can't wait to release him near the park! I hope I get to see Theseus the Transformer again.

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idk about what going to happen, see da yellow spots:)

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Farewell! 🖐🏻

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Releasing 🦋 into Bishan - AMK Park yesterday…

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This is how Beautie Cutie Pie looked like when it was first released. I will upload the photos of Cutie Pie's belongings preserved in natron later.

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Breaking News: I released my butterfly as Beautie Cutie Pie and it's drinking nectar now. Woohoo! 🎉 🎉🎉
I played the whole rickroll not as a prank but as a love song.

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For the last 3 days, Spiky has just been lazing around. Eating and all that. I haven't seen Spiky molt even one time and it is not pupating.

Boring Spiky!

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When your caterpillar hangs onto the top

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If your caterpillar has pupated then show it this.
its the best role model.

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For anybody who wants to know when the tawny coster pupa emerges, the answer is.....

5 Days

Sources:
Source 1 :          https://butterflycircle.blogspot.com/2013/02/life-history-of-tawny-coster.html#:~:text=Length%20of%20pupae%3A%2019%2D21mm,salmon%20orange%20in%20the%20abdomen.

Source 2 :
https://tinyurl.com/tawnycosterbutterfly

Please see both of them they're cool.
PS does anybody need tawny coster leaves? comment and ask if you do.

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I don't know why but lucas the tawny coster keeps staying at the ceiling and not eating! Even so, I see red liquid around the netting where he is...

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Smarty Pants the tawny coster hasn't been eating any leaves and the leaves are all yellow and he's still alive and still practicing his ninja skills like nothing has happened and I'm worried that he will die and I will have to preserve him with calcium chloride but I don't want to see my caterpillar carcass every day! THIS IS DRIVING ME CRAZY!
Meanwhile, Pupie Cutie Pie has been hanging in the pupa and doing nothing for 9 days already and 9 days is supposed to be the time it takes for lime butterflies to emerge and I'm worried that he's dead!
I'm so worried for my caterpillars!! How much time before the lime butterfly emerges will the chrysalis turn black and white? What do I do???

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Super Emotional Damage. My last and final tawny coster dieded. I accidentally dropped the box and the floor and it got crushed by the plastic stand that held the leaf. Then, ants crawled into the box and ate 3/4 of its rotten corpse.

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Was a very tiny caterpillar when it pupated. Not sure it will emerge from its chrysalis successfully 🙏🏻

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All those who took numerous photos and videos to track the life cycle of your butterfly in the past two weeks, did a lot of research online, do remember to save a few photos and videos in a folder marked as DSA 2023 inside your PC.

If one of the DSA interview questions / Prelim / PSLE EL or CL Oral Exam you have gotten next year is to talk about a Science Project / an interesting lesson that you had undertaken from P3 - P6, you would already have the content and the unique experience to share - i.e. using this Tawny Coster / Lime butterfly activity :)

Death is an inevitable part of all living things; some experience much earlier in the life cycle, some experience much later in the life cycle.

Even if the caterpillar unfortunately does not make it to the adult stage, I am sure there are some key learning points / takeaways from this "mini Science project".

Mrs Ng has really enjoyed everyone's photos and video clips updates. I'm also sure that everyone who visits this board has benefitted greatly from all the exchanges so far.

Pls continue to keep your updates coming in.

Well done all! 👏🏻

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For those whose larvae have already reached the pupa stage, you want to read up further online to find out the average duration it will spend in the pupa stage.

To give you an estimate when it will emerge from the chrysalis.

You wouldn’t want to miss that moment if you have the chance.

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Derp has not eaten for two days. He keeps on crawling around the container. He can be on the leaf and thirty seconds later appear on the top of the container.
I strongly suspect he is trying to find a suitable place to pupate. Any ideas?

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Adolphus died on Friday due to dehydration. Gustavus is barely alive.

[Edit] Maybe Adolphus cut himself on the sharp stick. I saw some blood. (The paper was a bit yellow)

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Frederick died today. I still have some Tawny Coster caterpillar leaves left, so if anyone is in need of them, please type it below in the comments.

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Daaky Daak pupated and I can give leaves away.
If you need any comment on this post(I have lots)

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it is emerging!!!!!!!
can anyone spot da wings?
yay i have been gud father

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My 🦋!

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Lmao comrade pupalime is still a pupa not much change.
Calculations show that the estimated time will be Monday morning
sad
hope he does it faster>:(
heres a vote thru google forms whoever gets it right will receive a FREE tinyurl link (isn't that exciting?)

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1blfJGzmp7GpqqYhJukkz9T8BQM9ITr4bcFYwZJZENN8/edit

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My caterpillar, Tawny Diputs, is now in the adult stage!

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My caterpillar finally pupated! His prolegs are gone now. As are his spikes. He’s now just hanging upside down. All this while he wasn’t eating much and I thought he was going to die! I’m so happy he’s on his way to become a butterfly!

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Help! Spiky the Tawny Coster needs more leaves!!! I only have 4 leaves left. Does anyone have extra leaves? Please give me next Monday.

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My caterpillar died today. I THINK IT ate itself

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Frederick was white when I found him after CCA but still has the shape of a Tawny Coster caterpillar. Is this normal when Tawny Coster caterpillars pupate or is Frederick possibly dead?

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Lucas is starving! He needs to eat more leaves! Does anyone has more tawny coster leaves?

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Caterpillar is dead

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I actually tried playing rickrolls
(it works?)
my caterpillar keeps dancing
FYI he likes to hang from on top a lot now I don't know why

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What's happened here
if he was moving in the picture he is actually dancing.
compare it to this(next post on top)

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Bob dieded. theres this weird black liquid- he looks like he's poisoned

btw mrs ng can i have another caterpillar for 6 dolla

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Today is Day 8.

Thorny died yesterday. RIP   :(

Spiky is eating more and more and getting fatter. (I wonder why he hasn't molted yet)

I have NO UPDATES. So this time the will be no video. (Because there is nothing interesting to talk about)

Me: Hi Thorny!
Thorny: I'm dying...
Thorny: *Dies*

Me: Hi Spiky!
Spiky: I'm severely overweight
Spiky: *Gobbles down another leaf*

However, I have one question to ask: was Thorny pupating when it died? （I saw a silk string attached to Thorny and to the side when it died. It somehow hanged itself or something)

Was it because Thorny was stuck to the side and he could not move so he could not reach the leaf?

Write your suggestions in the comments below.

~Elias

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Me: Stop defying gravity
Jeff: I'm just holding on to the netting-

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Colin Tan 5-2 - Here's Bob(Didn't copy anyone)

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Colin Tan 5-2 - Here's Bob(Didn't copy anyone)

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Me: Hello Bob
Bob: Leave me alone, i wanna sleep Zzz
Me: I do not understand-

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Dieded guy.

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One of my caterpillars dieded and the other is healthy and fine. Still crawling on the sides of the container, poops a lot.

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Just for anyone to note:
Signs that your caterpillar has died:
1. Looks like it's lying on it's side
2. Becomes smaller
3. Bends into a "c" or "u" shape and stays there
4. Doesn't eat for 2-4 days
5. Doesn't move for two days

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Does anyone have Tawny Coster leaves? My (to be named) caterpillar has been eating really little so I end up having to throw away the wilting leaves (they don't seem to absorb much water from the tube) If you do, could you pass the leaves to Lucas Huang?

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Brandon Tiong   5-2   13/7/2022     R.I.P Calculus The Caterpillar

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Brandon Tiong   5-2   13/7/2022     R.I.P Calculus The Caterpillar

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Day 8, Calculus died. I am very sad it did not have a chance to become a pupa, I made the post blue as it represents sadness. R.I.P Calculus. 😔😔😔😭😭😭

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Bob has been getting smaller these few days, he hasn't been moving at all... i thought he was pupating but then he was on the ground sp is it possible