This isn't a super picture, but I liked how you can see that the newborn baby caterpillar is actually smaller than the ant in the picture. The other dark spot is an egg about to hatch.
This has been the longest break I've noticed without monarchs since we started butterfly gardening a year ago. They were gone long enough for all of my plants to really grow back and one of them bloomed about 5 times before we got any eggs. This picture is from the front yard, but we also saw a monarch in the backyard this afternoon. We also saw a Zebra Longwing. I still haven't done anything to attract them on purpose, but they show up from time to time.
They are not really big. In wingspan, I don't think they are much wider than monarchs, but they are pretty "short" so it makes their wings look long.
Signs of spring in FL?
ReplyDeleteYup, I think the "long winter" is over.
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