I was lucky enough to receive a monarch caterpillar in a wildflower bouquet friends bought at the farmers' market this past August. I hope that in posting this photo of it I might conjure forth those summer months a little sooner...
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Just to be clear: I don't work at the National Zoo--I just live near it. I'm originally from Detroit, most recently from Boston (where I got my Ph.D. in biology from Tufts University), and am now living in Washington, DC.