What is this? It’s not Mr. Hankey
I noticed this thing sticking straight up out of the ground this evening. I popped it out of a hole that it was in. I thought that it was some kind of dead root. It’s about the size of a cigar and looks like Mr. Hankey from the Southpark TVShow.🙂 Yes, it looks like a piece of poo.
Is it a chrysalis? Should I pop it back into the hole? Destroy it?
That’s the hole it was in.
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Thank you, nicole.
I’ve just come in from popping it back into it’s hole.
I’m just going to weed around it and let it be.
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Nicole, I had to look up Hawk Moth, and then I realised they are what I see in my lilac bushes every year. I just went out and took a picture.
I have those all over my yard. I often mistake them for hummingbirds at first.Outside Playing, I thought about putting it in a jar. I think that I would if I had grandchildren and they could watch with me. My now grown daughter had a little butterfly house that she had a chrysalis in, and I remember how excited she was when the butterfly emerged.
I’m going to leave it where it is, and hopefully I’ll be there when it starts to come out.
last yearRoxsol, Cecropia or polyphemus don’t bury in the ground like this. Plenty of the big ones, like the Imperial moth do though. So do the tobacco hornworms. We had a cecropia emerge not long ago. put her in a tree, and she attracted a male.
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Well, I just found it lying about half a metre from the hole. 😕 A bird maybe ? I brought it into the house and placed it into a Bonne Maman jam jar. I don’t think the jar is big enough so I’ll look for another.
vgkg, there is no hook on the end of it as far as I can see.
tsug, yes, I believe you are correct, a Snowberry Clearwing. I tried to take another photo, but they don’t sit still, do they?
They’re all over my lilac bushes, with the bees, and butterflies.
Anyhow, the pupa is now in a jar.Thanks to you all. I’ll let you know what develops.
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last yearThe Hummingbird Clearwing stoped just long enough for a pic a few years ago.
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I’ve moved it to a bigger jar, and put a stick in with it. Should there be anything else?
The jar is about 14” x 5”.
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nicole