Odd places caterpillars pupate photos please

Hey ya'll...I subscribe to Butterfliesetc.com's newsletter and this month they are asking for photos of an odd place where you have found pupae - indoors or outdoors.

You can email your photo to: edith@buyabutterfly.com and use the subject line of "Places Caterpillars Pupate" or check out their website photos:
http://www.butterfliesetc.com/oddplacestopupate.php

Let's all share our odd and funny places photos where we have found a chrysalis on this Dave's Garden post as well as send them to ButterfliesEtc.

I sent this one in of a Giant Swallowtail pupating on a Forbes Rothschild Silkmoth cocoon :o)

~ Cat

Here is one, I have more to find.

This was inside a cage, I moved the cat off once, but came back and it was there again. Both eclosed just fine btw.

This message was edited Oct 31, 2008 8:40 PM

Sheila...I do hope you emailed your photo to Edith. She is posting them on her website.

~ Cat

I will send them, haven't yet. Here is a few others I will be sending.
I have a light fixture at my door and noticed the GF hanging at the bottom then I noticed two more on it! The Passion Vine is over 30 foot away.

This GF chrysalis is about 35 foot from the vine and on the bottom of a garden bench.

This GF wasn't too far from the vine (12 foot) but under a yard art birdhouse. Then as I looked closer at the picture I saw another under the roof!

About 20 foot from the Milkweed a Monarch got away from me and pupated at the top frame of a shop door. Good thing it was the side that we don't open very often!

Last one is a statuary that has a hat. One BST made it's chrysalis there then another followed suit. The parsley & dill is only about 6 foot away.

Love the one hanging from the bird house roof...you have one in the basement and one in the attic :o) Way cool on the ones on the garden statue too...is that the new cell phone earpiece :o) heh heh!

I know what you mean about those monarchs pupating on door frames. The Queens and GFs to that around my front porch security gate. I have to check it periodically and move them if they are in harm's way.

~ Cat

I guess they crawl up and toward the light maybe, not sure.