Footage of Machaons

Premise

Last year, I happened to find a huge dark caterpillar on the driveway, which turned out to be a Convolvulus Hawk-Moth. Eager to witness the metamorphosis, I built a small cabinet in which it could peacefully live its life while a webcam monitored everything.

Unfortunately, despite being kept inside the house during winter, the chrysalis did not survive. At that point, to relieve my mild sadness, I had been gifted with a wonderful “kit”. Apparently, there’s this website where they sell kits for growing different species of interesting caterpillars, in my case Papilio Machaons, among the most beautiful butterflies of Europe.

The Machaons

Out of the many beautiful pictures and videos I shot, I decided to only post a (rather silly) montage of them:

What can I say… Beauty certainly lies in the details.