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caterpillars, you can snip off a bit of the plant that they are on, and put it in a jar.
Here we use a big mayonaise jar from the school cafeteria. You can put the lid on it for
long enough to go home with it, but then replace the lid with a paper towel or tissue, so
the animals can breathe. If you have eggs or very young caterpillars, you may have to get
more plant material in a few days, because they won't want to eat dried-up plant leaves. If your caterpillar is eating well, you will soon see a lot of green pellets in the bottom of the jar. This is the caterpillar's "droppings" Somtimes you can find caterpillars on plants, even if they have camouflage coloring, by looking for droppings underneath them. |
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