West Island +

How to Post

Posting on West Island Gazette Plus is simple. Remember, only registered users can post stories, photos and listings. Click here for step-by-step instructions.

About this Site

The West Island Gazette Plus is the place to connect with your community. Post your own news stories, photos and event listings, side-by-side the latest regional headlines from The Gazette.

For editorial inquiries, contact Alycia Ambroziak (aambroziak@ thegazette.canwest.com) or Brenda O'Farrell (ofarrell@thegazette. canwest.com).

For advertising inquiries, please contact your Gazette sales representative.

©2008 The Gazette, a division of Canwest Publishing Inc.
All rights reserved. Unauthorized distribution, transmission or republication strictly prohibited.

Terms and Conditions
Privacy Statement

Log in & Sign up

You are not logged in.

Log in Create an account

Close [X]
Black Swallowtail Butterfly's caterpillar just before it becomes a cocoon and a brand new result of its transformation

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

JUST A REMINDER

posted by Olga at 13h32

Enlarge
Black Swallowtail Butterfly's caterpillar just before it becomes a cocoon and a brand new result of its transformation

So when your caterpillar cannot eat anymore and it looks like a fat hot dog in a colourful costume of a carnival dancer, you can be quite sure that its time is here to become a cocoon. Talking about cocoon life! Squeezed into your own tight skin, which eventually dries and turns into a boring brown colour, where there is no more exciting movement just hanging like a dead sock left out on the clothes line…

Still, if you asked me, I would be more than happy to peek into that dark temporary prison of an insect just to see what’s going on exactly. Is something dying there or it’s about to be born or something old takes up a form of something new…?

Actually, all of these, I guess.

Of course, everyone is familiar with those wonderful feelings of excitement which comes after a great expectation and its fulfillment in life. Holding our lifetime partner’s hand, our first baby, our first paycheque or the first car key… So when you see a cocoon cracking, get ready for some similar emotions. Excitement at its highest! Beauty indescribable! Wide open eyes and mouth!

But wait a minute… aren’t we just talking about a simple insect, an everyday creature with a short and fragile life that usually remains unnoticed anyways…?

Yes indeed. Until someone notices it and shares the joy with someone else so we all can be eyewitnesses of the wonder how creation repeatedly renews itself in a miraculous way. We just need a reminder.

»