Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY PICTURES #101, 3 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
One of my Monarchs emerged today and it was a girl! I set it to dry on the Corky-Stem Passion Vine since most of my other plants were either wet from the rain or getting visited by other butterflies. While looking at the passion vine I found some Zebra Longwing caterpillars muching away. They seem to prefer this species of passiflora over the caerulea or my hybrid "Lavender Lady". Finally, I took a picture of one of those Gulf Frit chrysalises on my entryway. There was a caterpillar too, up there earlier but now there's just a smear which has me worried. You can't save them all, I guess. And I don't tend to raise Gulf Frits because they get a disease when you put them in captivity. I mean, I've seen it in the wild too, but in captivity they spread it even worse. The disease makes them look like they're melting; it's pretty gross.

Melanie