Who knew that caterpillars were fussy eaters?!?

Overnight the Greenies expressed their dismay at the exchange of the cabbage leaf for a lettuce leaf by not only abandoning the lettuce but escaping too. Currently there is a large green caterpillar at large in my dining room.

Needless to say, cabbage has now been re-instated to the Greenies' container for the 2 remaining Greenies.

The big black caterpillar has had a very busy night. He turned into a pupa and cracked out of his final caterpillar skin.

In this photo he is wiggling out of his old caterpillar skin. None of the other pupas have had any exciting developments yet.

The Benjis decided that they too were fussy eaters and refused to eat the new leaves that they were given yesterday. They are now enjoying their original Cornish leaves and none of them are showing any signs at all of becoming a pupa.

Here is a shot of the intruder that was accidentally collected yesterday. He now has his own container with his own Paperbark species leaf.