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TW INSECTS WORMS CHRYSALIS CATERPILLARS

WHAT IS THIS?!?!?! Looks like fresh Swallowtail butterfly cocoons, but I’m not sure, it’s hard to find a quickguide on just the chrysalis pics of California insects.
My mom saw one on her kale plant (IN the house overnight, bc the plant comes in at night) and said an entire leaf was missing/eaten down overnight, and to come give the worm to my mantises before it eats more…

So I look, and it’s not moving. I see a second one and poke them a bit to try and see what they do, but they’re not even grabbing the leaf or moving, and they look like chrysalises. It’s too hard to see them outside in the sun where the plant goes out during the day, so I decide to pull them off so I can look at them inside, and AHAH! They’re attached by a string of silk, onto a mat of silk that’s then attached to the kale leaves. So, I pinned the silk mats to some fabric to leave them hanging in a critter carrier.

I have no idea how to care for butterflies, but I guess being The Bug Guy is now my life, so why not. ((If anyone knows what they are, please share! I’m on the central coast of Cali.))

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