Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 62, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Nanny...did you happen to notice if the second cell bar on the forewings was broken/hacked in two? That's one way to pinpoint the hackberry - think of it as 'hacked' :o) Could also be an Empress Leilia - but not sure where you are and if they are native to your area.

Don't think the color of papertowels has anything to do with chrysalis color...the VFs out here have very white chrysalids - and they've pupated on the black mesh of my reptarium. Maybe it has something to do with whether they eat violets or passion vine? Another of life's great mysteries :o)

Loved catching up on all those caterpillar photos and of course, those butterflies we don't get here - send Palamedes, Spicebush and Viceroys down south please :o)

At least the Dainty Sulphurs are all over the place! I commend you Mel for raising those wee buggers!!!

I collected three Pipevine caterpillars yesterday and two already pupated. The other is still eating. There were gobs of pipevine caterpillars out in the fields at the ranch. All except one was a dark form. We get the orangish red caterpillars to the dark one really stood out. I brought that one home to finish raising.

~ Cat

This message was edited Jun 14, 2009 7:12 PM