Northeast Gardening: Daily Musings, 1 by creeping_jenny

creeping_jenny wrote:
Hi all,
Though I have many nice grownup cardinals around--I don't seem to have any good pics of them. They don't stay still for long enough!

So, instead I'm sending a photo of 2 monarchs I hatched a little over a week ago. Every summer I look for eggs on my milkweed and I bring in about half of them and raise them in a little terrarium. (I don't ever see caterpillers on my outdoor plants, so I think something gets the eggs before they hatch.) Incredibly, it only takes about two weeks from egg hatch to butterfly release. I released four this year--hoping they will make it south this fall (-: