Our Monarch Butterfly Gallery

August 8, 2012

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

Our Latest Outdoor Adventure

August 1, 2012

Let me tell you our latest outdoor adventure. PX is our nature-lover. And this morning she noticed a small moth …

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 20, 2012

We have four chickens, which I will introduce at a later post. But the mystery of the day surfaced when …

July 18, 2012

A note on our 3-day-old monarch caterpillars. They have already taken on the markings of a mature caterpillar: beautiful green, …

July 17, 2012

On our dining room table is a paper plate. On the paper plate are milkweed leaves in different stages of …

July 16, 2012

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