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[jhameia]

My dad has a caterpillar in a jar on top of the microwave. He found it on the kaffir lime tree, and wanted to make sure at least one caterpillar makes it to butterflydom - seems he comes across a lot of half-eaten caterpillar corpses... So there it is. He feeds it every now and then with leaves that aren't brand new, but aren't too dark green yet. He knows what colour they should be because he sees only specifically coloured leaves that have been half-eaten by other caterpillars. The caterpillar is green with some brown splotches. He takes pretty good care of it and makes sure it has lots of leaves to eat.

YES MY DAD IS OVER FIFTY.