Kyla, if they've wandered off of plants, they may be in their wandering phase and looking for a good place to make a chrysalis. So they would be done eating, anyway. I don't recognize that as one of the butterfly cats, but maybe someone up your way can help out.
I'm going through tissues and Zyrtec at an alarming pace, but I still had to go fetch food for the critters. Outside, that Monk Skipper is still hanging around.
Duskywings on the Spanish Needles. What else is new?
Went looking for my Zebra Longwing cat on the P. lutea and found out it had a Gulf Frit friend. The Frit got moved because, as I showed you guys, that plant isn't big enough for the both of them! Zebra is the white cat, Frit is the orange.
Had to pick some Spicebush and found another egg! What's even cooler is that I found an egg on the Sassafras, too!
So many Gulf Frits.
Zebra Longwings definitely have a preference for the native passifloras. They totally ignore my cultivar, 'Lavender Lady', but I can't keep them away from the P. lutea and P. suberosa. This one was checking out both but I got her picture on the latter. She's blurry because she was still flying when I took the shot.
I saw some interesting butterflies on the edge of my neighbor's property but didn't want to wander over there for reasons we've previously talked about. What drew me over was I saw some kind of Sulphur. It was too big to be a Barred Sulphur and way too small to be an Orange-Barred. Normally, I would say it was a Sleepy Orange but it's way too early in the year for them. But this has been a weird year so what do I know? Anyway, I did manage to catch this Spicebush resting on the ground.
My Monarchs are not doing so well out on the Giant Milkweed. I found a dead caterpillar, and then I saw this bug (which the nice folks on the Insect ID forum told me what it was a while ago but I can't remember) sucking the life out of a chrysalis. I stepped on both to put them out of their misery.
