This male emerged today and let me take a few photos before he flew off, he’s in my butterfly emergence case that’s why you see the screen. The adult butterfly emerges from the chrysalis, some people like to think they are born but in the lifecycle of a butterfly the caterpillar would be born since… More »
Love in the afternoon !!! I caught these two Bee/ Drone Flies whooping it up on the Queen Anne’s Lace. I wonder if they were embarrassed 😀
My first Black Swallowtail caterpillar is in it’s resting state [Pupa] now so now it begins it’s journy to become a beautiful Butterfly !!! Three more of the caterpillars are finished eating and now getting into thier position to pupate and will eventually look like this also. They may become green like this one or… More »
I was cleaning these guys out today and decided it would show you the size between the younger caterpillar and the bigger ones that are getting close to pupating. Pupating is when the caterpillar has finished eating and is now the size to go into it’s next state that will result in the adult butterfly… More »
So I found two caterpillars a week ago on my parsley and another on my dill and finally I found 2 more on my fennel. This is one that’s on my fennel. I’m so happy to be raising 5 caterpillars even if it’s a lot of work. I do have one chrysalis from last fall… More »
I took this a few days ago when we had a warmer day and a little sun. There was this one Honey Bee really loving that Saffron in the crocus. She was so busy and had so many flowers to herself. It was a very weird April 1st here we started off the day with… More »
I just spent two days working in my gardens getting them cleaned up for this coming spring and summer. Friday I saw my first insect of the season a tiny little ant walking across my patio. And today I saw this Honey Bee collecting pollen in my crocus. While I was standing there taking this… More »
OH we have some sad news Stinky was found dead in his sleep the other day. The Twins wanted to pay their respects by having a funeral for the little Stink Bug : D View in full size original and Pray for Stinky’s soul : D
Meet Stinky he’s my new little pet Stink Bug that came to visit me the other day. I was sitting watching TV and went to take one of my vitamins and there was Stinky sitting right next to my pill on the table !!! He’s so cute and a wonderful thing to see since it’s… More »
OKAY so this is short and probably quite boring but this is how fast they eat. In this case it’s eating parsley. There is no sound unless you hear the background sounds of my camera or fridge !!!! The caterpillar is now in it’s position to begin pupating [form it’s chrysalis] it should stay in… More »
The return of Casey and Sassy, even though I love these Conifer Seed Bugs I thought you would find this funny. If they were my cats I definitely would have rescued this insect. But for now Casey and Sassy target their victim. This is from The Cat Diaries on youtube, and I thank him for… More »
These are two males that had been out of their chrysalis for about two hours. Their wings were all dry and firm and they were ready to be released. I had to touch them to wake them up but the one on the right got out and flew to the window. The chrysalis on the… More »
This is the second part of trying to get her to fly but because the weather was a bit chilly and rainy she didn’t want to fly. I finally put her in a tree branch and went to release the other female and male. When I looked back at the branch a minute later she… More »
This is one of the females that I released yesterday. It was a cloudy and rainy day so she wasn’t really ready to fly. They like it a bit warmer to get the energy to fly. I was out in the field by myself so I had to hold the camera and try and get… More »
