Joel Sartoreのインスタグラム(joelsartore) - 7月31日 23時39分

Transforming your #pollinatormonday with the lifecycle of the cecropia moth (swipe to see). This giant moth is the largest in North America, with a wingspan of up to six inches. It feeds on leaves and is known to pollinate apple, cherry, and plum blossoms. The lifecycle of this moth is mystifying. After hatching from an egg into a caterpillar, this solitary creature will eat many times its body weight in leaves as it grows. It will then find a safe place to attach its cocoon, such as the the underside of an elder tree leaf. The caterpillar will spin a cocoon of silk fibers where it will form a chrysalis, and develop an entirely new body.
Although it doesn’t look like much is going on, inside the cocoon is a very busy place. The caterpillar's body digests itself from the inside out to rebuild itself. The fluid breaks down the old caterpillar body into cells called imaginal cells, which have the potential to become any type of cell. The new body then forms from those cells, wings and all. This whole process takes about two weeks. When the time comes, fluid will secrete to soften the chrysalis and the fully formed moth will break through the fibers to dry its wings and enter the world. Now that’s a transformation!
Keep it up with those images of your pollinator gardens, milkweed and monarch images. Use the hashtag #pollinatorhero so I can follow along with you!
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#pollinators #moth #crysilis #transformation #metamorphosis #cecropiamoth #conservation #animalfacts #animalconservation #photoark #natgeo #savetogether

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