A Field Guide to the North Side of Old Mill Hill, Atlantic Mine, MI
Posts tagged ‘caterpillar’
S_ found this one back on June 1. It’s been a while, and she forgets the details of how she found it now[1], but she thinks it was hanging by a thread from one of the apple trees[2]. It was a bit over an inch long.
What’s worse that biting into an apple and finding a worm?
Biting into an apple and finding half a worm![1]
We never spray our apple trees, and so it is pretty common to have little fellas like this in the apples. This is one of the reasons I like to cut an apple into quarters to eat it, instead of just eating it whole. That way, I have a chance to see if there is a worm inside, and to separate it and its “frass”[2] from the part of the apple I want to eat.
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They change so much as they grow up!
In the middle of June, S. found this little caterpillar on an aspen tree
