No problem! Back when I was on the other site Dave started, and I was new at this, I posted a picture of what I thought was a Queen. And everyone agreed with me. Well, years later I was going through my photos and I realized it was actually a Viceroy! I guess a lot of people don't realize in areas where there are lots of Queen butterflies (which I wouldn't say was here, but whatever) the Viceroy does the double mimic thing by copying the pattern of the Monarch and the color of the Queen. It's like a butterfly double agent! Honestly, now that I know better, I think it's weird when I see someone post a picture of an orange Viceroy.
I think it's fun to look back at old photos and see if you can identify patterns like when the first Swallowtail showed up, when you got the first eggs of a certain species, or whatever it is that's important to you. I often surprise myself when I look at my old photos. Like a few weeks back when I was trying to figure out how many times I had raised Palamedes Swallowtails and I found out it was more than I had thought - though still not enough!
FYI, Tersa has settled down and seems content in his leaf nest. As soon as he pupates and hardens up, I'll tear it apart and take pictures. Then, I'm going to put him in the pupation container (formerly known as the chrysalis container but I'm making allowances for moths) where he'll have lots of sticks to emerge on. Remember, butterflies aren't so good on slick surfaces like plastic so give them stuff to grab. Unless you have Monarchs because they will have already silked every square millimeter of whatever you've put them in.
No, you should probably give them sticks, too.
Oh, I can't remember if I said this before or not so forgive me if I repeat myself. A while back I was taking pictures of a Spicebush caterpillar (which is possibly my most photographed caterpillar according to my photo files). And the camera picked up on the eyespots and put a little square around them like it thought it was a person's face! How's that for fooling predators? My own camera used the facial recognition technology on it! Have any of you guys had your camera do that? I thought it was really cool.
