Category Archives: Caterpillars After one of the young male Cardinals finished bathing, he took time out to pose in front of the Milkweed. Some of you Butterfly Gardeners may notice how full that Milkweed is. The reason it’s so full, not just in this particular place but all across the yard, is because we only had 7 Monarch...  Today certainly has been interesting. I’ll start with the Monarchs. Originally we had 9 Monarch caterpillars from that adult Monarch who probably traveled from Mexico. Now we have 7. Two of them died, but I’m not sure why. I had been keeping the Monarch caterpillars in a protected enclosure to protect them from wasps, and...  I thought I’d provide a little backyard Butterfly update. We haven’t seen any Monarch Butterflies, but we do have 9 Caterpillars from the one Monarch from Mexico. To give the Caterpillars the best chance of success, I have quarantined them in our Butterfly Enclosure. I did this to protect the Caterpillars from predatory wasps and...  We went out tonight and started to see if we could finally recognize some of the young caterpillars that were laid there by their mother from Mexico. You may remember me mentioning we have only seen 1 Monarch and she didn’t lay very many eggs on the milkweed. We were only about to find about... Sorry for the lack of updates. I’ve been taking it easy for the last two weeks. I still need to post some additional bird pictures from Anahuac, and I have some new Butterfly pictures to post as well. Speaking of Butterflies, during the snow we recently had, Leecy and I went out and collected all... |
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