Sunday, June 13, 2010

Butterfly's 2010

“There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.” - Buckminster Fuller
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The past couple of weeks have been the start of the Monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus Linnaeus) season. The milkweeds have been blooming and producing pods which dispense seeds in a most ingenious way and their leaves have been showing the results of hungry caterpillars. We have also seen a couple Giant Swallowtails (Papilio cresphontes Cramer) flying around which have laid eggs on a citrus tree as well.
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Milkweed. (Note pod starting to split open)
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Monarch caterpillars on milkweed.
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Grace & Peace

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