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Post by Tucson Grower on Sept 4, 2022 8:44:05 GMT -6
Nice, healthy looking female queen. I've had no monarchs, and only about a dozen queen larva on all my cultivated milkweed, this season. so far, and I haven't been able to verify if any successfully pupated or eclosed. Though last winter I brought late larva inside on potted milkweed, with dozens eclosing indoors. I don't have any potted milkweed to do that this winter - poor planning. At least the javelina don't seem interested in the milkweed.
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Post by chrysanthemum on Sept 10, 2022 20:38:10 GMT -6
We have a lot of Gulf Fritillary butterflies that hang around our passionflower vines. The vines grow on a trellis that is right beside our netted “blueberry cube,” and the caterpillars often crawl away from the vines to find a safe place to pupate. It often ends up being inside the blueberry cube. At this point we’re leaving the door open since there are no berries to protect from birds, and we want the butterflies to be able to get out. Yesterday when I was on our deck (which is on the other side of the blueberry cube), I noticed a butterfly that had just eclosed from its chrysalis on the leg of one of our tables. I was able to get a nice shot of it while it was drying. Here are some passionflowers, and a blurry image of a butterfly who hadn’t yet found the doorway out of the cube
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Post by woodeye on Sept 10, 2022 22:34:21 GMT -6
Thanks for all the beautiful photos, chrysanthemum. Apparently you have a perfect setting for butterflies. Cool...
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Post by heavyhitterokra on Sept 11, 2022 16:13:10 GMT -6
That's awesome, Chrysanthemum! We hardly ever see a butterfly around here. They drift through from time to time on their way to somewhere else.
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