Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: Ceraunus Blue? caterpillars, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Hey ya'll...thanks for the postings!!!

Mike Quinn, a Texas entomologist, sent the photos to Jim Brock and our local south Texas NABA chapter. The SoTX Chapter posted them on their website :o)

Click on the 'what's new link' on the left side of the home page:

http://www.naba.org/chapters/nabast/index.html

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* * * Donna...what book is that from? I'd like to read up more about them.

...also noticed when I was reviewing my photos...I'd taken three photos within the same minute and only that one showed the Ant Organs - they don't stay out for long it seems! I never noticed when I was taking the photos...just happened to stumbled on them when I was zooming in on the photos when I downloaded them onto my computer. I did see ants crawling on the various caterpillars and doing what looked like drumming on the cat body but didn't think much of it until I saw the photos...duh!!! I learn new things every day!!!

GOOD NEWS!!! Three of the chrysalids eclosed today!!! Whodathunk a gorgeous little butterfly could come out of something smaller than a grain of rice!!!

Here's a photo of one them perched on my knuckle prior to release :o)

~ Cat


This message was edited Sep 3, 2006 2:47 PM