My first Monarch caterpillar has pupated! The other 3 caterpillars are very small. I wonder, really, if the eggs were laid by a Monarch that overwintered in Mexico, or maybe they were laid by the second generation.
PBS has started showing The Incredible Journey of the Butterflies again. It's beautiful and really great. It has occurred to me that it's a limited and incomplete story of the Monarchs in the Northern Hemisphere. I can't help but think there should be a second part that tells the rest of the story. The western migration and the year-round areas such as in parts of Florida, for example. And maybe more about why the Monarch population is becoming so extremely low now. Today I spotted a Monarch in the area of Helotes, Texas. So sad it's the first adult Monarch I've actually seen this year. In the past, I would have seen lots in the spring!
Hard to tell with the pic of the Lady, but it looks more like an American Lady to me.
