A Butterfly is Born
You can always tell when they are fresh out of the chrysalis; they are slower, they sit longer in one place, fanning their wings as they stretch and dry. They flit just a little, looking for something good to eat.
If you want to have butterflies, you want to have milkweed, to nourish the caterpillars, and then guara, hot lips, golden drop, pentas, etc to nourish the newly emerged butterfly.
I only know all this because AdventureMan is growing all these wonderful plants which attract Monarchs, Sulphers, Buckeyes, Gulf Fritillaries, hummingbirds, bees and more birds. π
UPDATE: LOL, AdventureMan came to me and told me I had to change things to make them accurate, especially if I was citing him.
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You fascinate me, Madame Butterfly – didn’t know there existed an occult lepidopterist inside of a writer, thinker and gourmand:) Had been on a butterfly safari just the once and just the once would do me fine.
It is a fascinating world out there I know with all the larva, puppa, chrysalis et al. but I am too much of a butterfly myself to stay put inside this aviary. I need an out. Do butterflies ever out themselves? π
Have heard them say well, not-so-nice things about butterflies with killer looks. Pass me on to the Adventure man, s’il vous plait – Sir, can the Monarch butterfly befriended? Down where I live when we go out camping(which happens once in a blue moon) I sometimes spot a yellow butterfly. Is that a malignant sighting?
Stop! Stop! You’re killing me, BL. I am dying laughing . . . . what a way to go. π
I like butterflies, but AdventureMan is the knowledgeable one. He started trying to attract butterflies a little over a year ago, and has been amazingly successful. We love all the visitors – we have several born in the garden many months of the year, and love watching the progress.
A butterfly safari? I have never heard of this! I like butterflies, but I think I would need a book with me on that one, LOL!