Texas Gardening: Butterfly classification, 1 by konkreteblond

konkreteblond wrote:
Great pic Mary!! You can even see the aphids! I love my BST's but I'm really tired of keeping them inside. I've done of for about 3 years now and I keep saying I'm going to just leave them outside, but I don't.

The last of my 18 finally just made their chrysalis but then I had to rescue 3 from a friend's dill while they were out of town. I have been teaching her son how to attract them and raise the cats so I'll give them back to him as a chrysalis soon.

You should see the color of these cats! They are all black/white/orange, no green! I'll try and get a pic. I tried last night but couldn't find my camera. When I went to bed at 1:30am I was falling asleep and all my thoughts were just flying thru my head and I saw where I put my camera! It was outside so I had to get up and go get it.

And every time I went to cut more dill there were more cats on it so I've got about 10 small ones inside eating rue and dill now. Poop, eat, poop, eat, poop, eat...

Maybe I should try a cafe too. I could put a big net over it to keep the other critters off of it, or just not bother.