I'm sorry to burst everyone's bubble, but that Monarch chrysalis looks diseased. If it was at MOSI, I'd throw it in the trash. Looks like an OE infection or another parasite. Read more about OE here:
http://www.monarchwatch.org/bi...
Jack, stop hogging all the Sulphurs! Seriously, I've been seeing Sulphurs, they just don't want to land. I usually get an uptick in them this time of year. I think it's because their host plants are blooming or about to bloom. I think the generation that gets protection from flower camouflage has a better rate of survival. Just another theory, I have.
I slept all day and have a headache, so I just fed and cleaned the cats and that was it. All of the first batch of Black Swallowtails are now either in their slings or chrysalises. That was one nasty container to clean out. Several more Phaon Crescents have made chrysalises which only leaves another hundred or so to go!
In sad news, it looks like of the four eggs I picked on what I believe to be Partridge Pea, only one hatched. In odd news, he moved from the Wisteria to the Desmodium. But I just brought him a new Wisteria leaf so I think he'll move back to that. Who says you can't change their host plant? I have yet to see one refuse.
