Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 27, 1 by mellielong

mellielong wrote:
Well it's cool and rainy here and it's supposed to stay that way until Wednesday. No butterflies, but I found yet another Gulf Frit cat. One of my Gulf Frits is acting funny. He seems to have shrunk and he was curled up in the corner for quite some time. I picked him up and he had silk stuck all over his legs. Not to get too graphic, but I think his anal proleg seemed to be stuck together. I tried to pick the silk off of him and free up his legs and now he's sitting on a new leaf of food I put in there for him.

I'm trading some bromeliads with some other DGers so I was walking around the bromeliad garden when I noticed something odd. One of my tillandsias (the family that includes Spanish moss and ball moss) had some little eggs on it. Naturally, I picked the leaf they were on, brought them in, and placed them in a Gladware container. The tillandsia is attached to the trunk of a small oak tree. Tell me if these eggs look familiar and let's all hope nothing horrible emerges from them!

Melanie