Hummingbird and Butterfly Gardening: DAILY BUTTERFLIES Page 69, 1 by TexasPuddyPrint

TexasPuddyPrint wrote:
Criminy!!! I've only seen the usual suspects and they are very far and few between at that! You've got a smorgasboard of butterflies there!!! Keep rubbing it in - this Texan will fill up one thread with all the butterflies in October :o) Remember our peak butterfly season starts in the Fall - hee hee!!! Hurry up world...turn faster!!!

Okay...went to the ranch today in the hopes of seeing some but alas, the golf cart is dead. Not sure if one of the batteries went kaput or what. Oh well, used the old ranch truck to drive around and swap out all the game camera chips and saw gobs...yes, gobs - at least two dozen - feral hogs, a few coyotes and one skinny bobcat =^..^= not one single deer!

Brought back some plants to feed a couple of caterpillars I'd found on some native mallow the week before - when I checked them a while ago one had already pupated. I was thinking they are white checkered skippers but I don't remember the ones I raised before having brown "spots" on the head --- anybody recognize this chrysalis???

Linda??? Have you raised laviana or turks cap skippers? Does this chrysalis look familiar?

~ Cat