What is this?

[J.R.]

What is this? I found it in a flowerbed that has been filled with pinebark beside the house, it don't move unless you touch it where the segments are? it is about 2 1/4 inches long.

J.R.

 

[SwitchbackXThunter]

I think it is some type of butterfly cocoon.

 

[virgil]

i think it is a wolf(maybe misspelled) i seen something like that from a squirrel i shot in early fall.

 

[Mugwamp]

Looks like a butterfly or moth cocoon.
Best Regards Mugwamp

 

[SwitchbackXThunter]

You got me curious to find out what that is.... After looking at some stuff it looks to be a Luna Moth Cocoon

 

[dawg2]

Put it in a jar with air holes, of course. It will hatch and then you will know for sure. It is not a Luna moth, they make a silken cocoon in leaves and hatch from that. Not sure which that is, but I am pretty sure that is a butterfly pupae or chrysalid. Let it emerge and you can get some nice pics.

 

[SwitchbackXThunter]

This is the picture I found that made me believe it was a Luna Moth

 

[dawg2]

This is the picture I found that made me believe it was a Luna Moth

It could be. I caught a big fat Luna Moth Caterpillar on my deer blind last year and let it overwinter in a jar. It made a big silk cocoon and we let it emerge and then let it go. That pupae may be one that came fell out of the cocoon I'd put it in a jar and let it hatch

 

[redneckcamo]

ask siguorney weaver if its ALIEN !!!

 

[discounthunter]

moth pupa. no way of knowing exactly what kind till it hatches.

 

[4wheeling4life]

ole moth

 

[OL' Square Britches]

What

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[J.R.]

Thanks guys, I put it back where I found it. I will watch it and see what it does.

J.R.

 

[Al White]

looks like something the cat dropped off... LOL

 

[Six million dollar ham]

What they pulled out of that girl's throat in Silence of the Lambs