After the caterpillars on the papaya had all
disappeared into thin air (surrounded by white fuzz), the papaya leaves were left to grow undisturbed once again. Yet, not that many days went by before I began to notice a new set of bites taken out of the leaves up at the very top of the papaya.
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| Papaya leaves with some tips chewed partially off and other tips completely gone. |
Another sphinx moth must have visited the papaya to lay her eggs and make the tree play host to a new batch of caterpillars. How many caterpillars were in this new batch? Standing on the ground it was difficult to see up to the top of the tree and I only spotted one caterpillar. However, with the help of my camera, I was able to count not just one, but seven new caterpillars.
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| The seven caterpillars circled in red. |
That is, I counted seven new caterpillars just on the small part of the papaya shown in the pictures above. I didn't count how many caterpillars were gobbling up the rest of the papaya leaves. Happily, however many caterpillars there were, they didn't stop the tree from also producing a nice batch of papaya fruits.
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| Papaya fruits growing from the trunk of the papaya tree. |
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