This evening, Brian and I went for a Rollerblade ride at one of the local Metroparks. We were moving along quite nicely until I noticed one of the creatures pictured above in the middle of the path. Since I think caterpillars are rather cute and this one was especially cute because it was fuzzy, I decided to help it out by moving it off the path into the grass to avoid squishage by any number of passing rollerbladers, bicyclists, walkers, or runners.
Needless to say, this caterpillar was not the only one in danger. We stopped quite often in our figure eight trip around the Metropark to rescue these unsuspecting caterpillars. We probably saved 10-15 caterpillars in the hour we were on the trail.
When we got home, I wanted to find a picture of the caterpillars that we had rescued and have now since discovered that the caterpillars I chose to rescue are actually tent caterpillars that can do quite a bit of damage to trees and bushes. At this point, I'm not sure we did the right thing for the trees, but at least we prolonged the life of another of God's creatures, the tent caterpillar.
2 comments:
Haha. That was very nice Beth. I would have saved them too!!
They were everywhere when I went backpacking last weekend. I haven't seen so many since I was a kid. Must be the year of the tent caterpillar.
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