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Saturday, February 6, 2010

It's out!

The cocoon I posted in the last post has died in an accident. However, there was another one hidden in the branches and leaves in the box I used to feed the caterpillars. This one was not emerged until Dec 11 morning. Cool!


Papilio machaon

4 comments:

  1. The pattern on the wings of this Pappillo is beautiful!

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  2. Thanks jeannette. This is one of the commonest butterflies in China. The species is also distributed in North America.

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  3. OMG!!!it's so beautiful!!!I love the colours!!!=D.Mingfei is Awesome!!

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