MUSHROOMS!

Today the kids and I went on a nature walk. It was a gorgeous day and we just had to get out and enjoy the 70’s before the winter hits in Northern WI! We’ve had close to 5 inches of rain in the last couple of weeks so the mushrooms are out in full force. I don’t have time to try to look up these mushrooms to identify them yet, but I thought I’d put these pictures up as they’re so pretty!

 

 

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.