Areas of Margin ~ The Garden

May 7, 2024

(One of a series of articles exploring alternatives to the daily barrage of information, images and thought-clutter that comes at …

A Monarch Emerges

August 9, 2012

A few photos of a monarch butterfuly emerging from its chrysalis. This was a delightful morning occupation both yesterday and …

August 8, 2012

On July 30th five of our monarch caterpillars entered their chrysalises. This morning they emerged – no longer fat squishy …

July 31, 2012

Yesterday, about 15 hours after attaching themselves to their silk pads, our monarch caterpillars (five of them) pupated into lovely …

July 30, 2012

We have been raising Monarch caterpillars from eggs. (See previous posts.) I have not posted about them for ten days; …

July 16, 2012

This morning we had a lovely surprise. We have been keeping a sprig of milkweed in a plastic soda-bottle terrarium. …