Butterfly and Wildlife Gardening And Photography In Houston Texas
Category Archives: Mexican Milkweed 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 would put together some brief videos on how to create a successful Butterfly Garden for my last day of vacation. There are a total of 5 videos, each one is less than 2 minutes long. Watching these should give you a decent idea of how to start (or continue) a successful Butterfly…  I couldn’t stand it any longer. Although there is a chance of freezing weather this week, I just had to go buy some new plants. I’ve been tired of looking in the backyard and seeing nothing but brown. I previously had about 10 milkweed plants (which have been in pots that I take indoors when… I haven’t had a chance to talk about what the effects were after the winter storm that came around last week. It actually got our plants pretty good. We’re just leaving everything as it is since the cold isn’t over and perhaps those dead branches can help protect the non-frozen parts. Our biggest concern right… Now this is exciting news! I posted a couple of weeks back on how Painted Lady and Monarch Butterfly Caterpillars were sent aboard the space shuttle. The Painted Lady Butterflies hatched from their Chrysalises a couple of weeks ago, and now it’s been reported that a Monarch emerged from its Chrysalises as well. According to…  The Monarch and Gulf Fritillary Caterpillars are really prevalent right now in our backyard. I found one Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar beginning to move into the Chrysalis stage. It was hanging from our rock waterfall on our pool. We also have lots of Monarch Caterpillars feeding on the Milkweed. Look how fat this Caterpillar is!  After the dreary, rainy day we had yesterday, it was a welcome sight to have nothing but sunshine and blue skies today. The beautiful weather also brought out all the Butterflies. It also brought out the “territorialness” in all the male Butterflies. Probably the most aggressive was this male Monarch pictured below. He would rest…  We have quite a few Monarch Caterpillars right now. We counted at least 20 of them today feeding on the Milkweed. Fortunately, our Milkweed is looking pretty healthy and has lots of leaves so we should be able to feed them without any problems. The picture below was one of the larger Caterpillars we have… |
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