Abigail and I were harvesting the potatoes the other day and I dug this up…at least I think I dug it up.  Anyhow, it ended up in the pile of dirt from which we were picking potatoes.  At the top it seemed like a cocoon but it was very much larva-like at the bottom.  I guess it was a moth or butterfly larva weaving its cocoon but I do not know what type.

That crazy thing was wiggling around and really freaking the kids out ( I, of course, was quite brave and unmoved by its actions).  It was several inches long and full of ugly.  I decided to just put it back in the dirt and hope for the best.

We are pretty fond of butterflies but I have sort of mixed reactions to moths…due to a bad experience with wax moths and my stored honey supers…I still can hardly talk about it!

Anyhow, we had a pretty good haul of potatoes and the kids were absolutely fantastic at helping me harvest them. I have never seen them work so hard as they did then.