I just found my first cat of this year! I must say, I haven't even seen a Variegated Fritillary butterfly so far this year. And I've never seen the cats this soon. And confused? I'm confused because a VF cat, not even a small one, appeared in March on a Lace Cactus plant! Maybe it was confused as well? Kind of prickly, that plant. Well, I put the cat in a container on a piece of flax plant from my yard, but it doesn't seem interested so far, it left the plant to wander around the container. Well, there's usually another flax, Rock Flax, that grows not too far from there the area I found it...may have come from one of those. I found a good link to info about its life cycle here:
http://www.reige.net/nature/va...
Will try to get a pic of the cat tomorrow!
