Cecropia Caterpillar Starting to Make Cocoon!

After a summer of raising cecropia caterpillars and being down to only one caterpillar left alive, our caterpillar is starting to make it’s cocoon! We’re excited to have another cocoon to hopefully hatch out next summer. With any luck it will be a female and we can get another brood of caterpillars next summer! Here are a couple of pics of the start of the cocoon.

Caterpillar is inside all the silk – kind of under the leaf a bit and sticking out the other side

On this pic you can just see the edges of the caterpillar’s tubercles sticking out from under the side of the leaf.