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Jun 12, 2016 8:13 PM CST
Name: Melanie
Lutz, Florida (Zone 9b)
Butterflies Enjoys or suffers hot summers Hummingbirder Birds Bee Lover Bookworm
Region: Florida Celebrating Gardening: 2015 Bromeliad Native Plants and Wildflowers Plant Identifier Salvias
You have some cool butterflies up your way, Jim. I was looking at that Olympia Marble and wondering if that was it. Very pretty! I searched statewide since I didn't know what county you lived in. They don't really tell you it's not mandatory to select the county so I thought that might help. Thanks for the acorn tip! Thumbs up

In my own "duh" news...I was going to the bathroom before "Game of Thrones" came on and I did a quick check of the tanks to make sure no one had emerged from their pupa or anything. Instead, I notice I didn't shut the lid on the Sulphur container all the way! I start looking, knowing there's only two of them, and I only see one. I said, "Oh bleep!" The opening credits for "Game of Thrones" are pretty long so I start looking around the general area seeing if he's on the outside of one of the other tanks. I mean, it's a caterpillar - how far could it get? I don't see it so I start looking around the floor. I have a desk fan sitting in my room that blows on me when I sleep. (Like a plant, I require good air circulation.) I look at it, thinking of its whirring blades of death, and there's that stupid caterpillar crawling on the rim of it! I scooped him up, told him how lucky he was, put him back in the container, shut the lid TIGHT, and watched TV. Whew! My room is such a disaster zone right now I figured I'd find a shriveled up caterpillar in a few months while cleaning. Glad it didn't come to such an end.

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