The eighth butterfly emerged this morning. Another female. That makes six females and 2 males, so far.
She didn’t seem to mind at all when I stuck my camera in her face.
Beautiful.
~~Rhonda
nienie
MTW
Category Archives: caterpillars
butterfly #8
September 30, 2008 – 1:29 pm
bye bye, butterfly
September 25, 2008 – 9:49 am
The first butterfly emerged two days ago. Another one yesterday. And another one this morning!
We waited until DH came home after work to release the first one. He had to carefully take the screen off the top of the tank as two caterpillars have decided to attach to it to pupate. Silly bugs.
The butterfly [...]
first butterfly!
September 23, 2008 – 10:42 am
We now have eleven chrysalises in our butterfly tank and the first butterfly emerged today.
I’m posting this photo in a large size so you can see the amazing beauty and detail of the wing scales. Isn’t God’s gift of creation amazing?
Buttercup is fascinated!
We put some butterfly bush blossoms and a couple of purple coneflower blossoms [...]
caterpillar club
September 21, 2008 – 8:42 pm
We’re raising caterpillars we found on the parsley in the garden. We did the same two years ago. It’s fascinating to watch them grow and change, molting as they get larger.
We use a large fish tank to house them, and a piece of window screen with an elastic band to top the tank. To keep [...]
you turn your back for ten minutes…
September 15, 2008 – 3:05 pm
I watched this little guy for forty minutes early Friday morning, waiting for him to molt from a caterpillar into a chrysalis. I had my camera on the tripod, ready to take a video of the quick transformation. I waited and waited and waited…
Then I turned my back for ten minutes, while I checked email [...]
